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VGW(RI.773.027
25 Mar 1773:21 (359)
London, December 5. . . It is said that a great magistrate,
who lately hopped into a certain chair, is so out of humour
with that word that he had ordered his brewer to put no hops
in his beer. It is also reported he will have no ball at
Easter for fear it should be called a hop. Nay, so enraged
is he with this poor harmless syllable, that the parish
clerk had like to have been committed by the brutal tyrant
for singing out of a stave in Sternhold, "Why hop ye so ye
hills?" He has ordered Hopkins to be erased from his psalm
books.
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