NOTE1850
SATIRICAL POEMS ON WILLIAM III
By GRENDON.
Some years since I copied from a MS. vol., compiled before 1708, the following effusions of a Jacobite poet, who seems to have been "a good hater" of King William. I have made ineffectual efforts to discover the witty author, or to ascertain if these compositions have ever been printed. My friend, in whose waste-book I found them,—a beneficed clergyman in Worcestershire, who has been several years dead,—obtained them from a college friend during the last century. "UPON KING WILLIAM'S TWO FIRST CAMPAGNES. "'Twill puzzle much the author's brains, That is to write your story, To know in which of…
Topics: Satirical Poetry, Jacobitism, Royal History
Locations: Worcestershire, Namur, Mons, Flanders