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Title: A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England

Author: James Parkerson

Release Date: July 13, 2010 [eBook #33150]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A POEM TO THE MEMORY OF OUR LATE
LAMENTED QUEEN CAROLINE OF ENGLAND***

Transcribed from the early 1800's edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was
made.

A POEM
TO THE
Memory of our late lamented
QUEEN CAROLINE
OF
_ENGLAND_.

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BY J. PARKERSON, JUN.

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NORWICH:
_PRINTED_, _BY R. WALKER_, _NEAR THE DUKE'S PALACE_

_A POEM_
TO THE MEMORY OF OUR LATE LAMENTED
Queen Caroline.

As a Briton, this tribute I pay to my Queen,
Who late fell a martyr to malice and spleen;
To add to her sorrows in this fleeting life,
Misfortune had made her a young widow'd wife.
England saw Brunswick's daughter surrounded by foes;
And, therefore determin'd their arts to oppose.
Corruption those minions so much can increase,
As to play with our feelings and injure our peace.
The vilest of reptiles oft jewels display;
You may see them at courts and at levees each day:
Lord D--- and his lady, not many years since,
Unblushingly perjured themselves for a ---:
Their conduct was such as rous'd England's spleen,
That after her trial they dare not be seen;
May remorse and disgrace so harrass each breast,
As during existance divest them of rest;
Till despis'd and dish