excerpt from 'Letter from Anna Seward to Chris. Smythe, Esq., 7 April 1796' pp. 196 (116 words)

excerpt from 'Letter from Anna Seward to Chris. Smythe, Esq., 7 April 1796' pp. 196 (116 words)

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Letter from Anna Seward to Chris. Smythe, Esq., 7 April 1796

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They [the Duke of Somerset and Mr Mitchel] were here on our grotesque Whitsun- Monday anniversary, connected, time immemorial, with the charter of our city.—It is the vulgar jubilee of the town and its environs. Guns are fired over every house;—gaudy morris-dancers caper in the thronged streets;—emblematic figures, and garlands, are carried on poles;—meat, cakes, and wine, are given gratis, under awnings;—drums, and tabors, and fiddles, are dinning amid the crowd, 

“And all is riot and rude merriment.”

 […] I always immure myself at home through that day, and my domestics leave me, to partake of amusements better suited to their taste than mine.

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