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VGW(PA.738.046
15-22 Sep 1738:41 (112)
There is a piece of news from Spain from very good hands,
that His Catholick Majesty begins to grow tir'd of the
musick of Farinelli's pipe, occasion'd by a nightingale
being presented to him which cost a pistole, and which he
thinks has the best voice of the two; from whence our
politicians have formed hopes that Farinelli may be restored
to this nation again.----Let the Spaniards take our ships,
let them drive us out of our colonies, nay, let them cut off
our ears, if they return us Farinelli.-Ask all the affected
ladies about court, ask our new promoted heroes that behave
so valliantly at a review, what is the ruin of a thousand
merchants, what the interest of a dirty nation, in
comparison of a song.
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