Odes on Royal birthdays were formerly expected from the Poet Laureate, who had to read his effusions to the Royal household. The poems were frequently so poor that at last the Royal household pleaded to be spared them. So in the middle of the eighteenth century these odes were discontinued.
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Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 14
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50Page 14 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 14
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