Odes on Royal birthdays were formerly expected from the Poet Laurente, who had to read his effusions to flic Royal household. The poems were frequently so poor, that at last I lie Royal household pleaded to be spared them. So in the middle of the 18th century, these odes were discontinued.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 21
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