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VGW(HU.774.034
3 Mar 1774:21 (1169)
London, December 26. A correspondent informs us that on
Sunday the clerk of a Methodist meeting house, not many
miles from Hyde Park corner, hearing the flying news of Mr.
Wilkes's death, and being a violent enemy to the patriot,
and longing to communicate the glad tidings to the
congregation, contrived to bring it in at the close of a
hymn of his own composing, in the following ingenious
couplet:
The wicked Wilkes by Townsend hath been shot,
So may th' ungodly always go to pot.
And all the people sung it most devoutly.
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