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NYEP(D.752.022
27 Jul 1752:22 (277)
London, April 2 . . . When Mr. John Coan, the Norfolk dwarf,
who is now to be seen at the watch maker's facing the
Cannon-Tavern, Charing Cross, was at Leicester-House, and
had the honour of being introduced to their Royal
Highnesses, he repeated the following lines:
Behold, most gracious Princes! at your feet,
In miniature, a man of form complete:
If honour'd thus, too blithly I behave,
Oh pardon at this time your little slave,
Who inward blesses his peculiar fate
That made him small, to pleasure you so great.
Let others boast their stature, or their birth,
This glorious truth shall fill my soul with mirth,
And I now am, and hope for years shall sing,
The smallest subject of the greatest King.
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