| Selected item (#2111) = Go, Flora (said th’ impatient Queen) |
| Attributes of this item |
| incipit (first line(s), normalized): |
Go, Flora (said th’ impatient Queen) |
| version (if more than one exists): |
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| the item's genre (general): |
ode |
| the item's genre (specific): |
Birthday, George III |
the institution/place or purpose
for which the work was first destined: |
English court |
| the work's year (or focal date, if known): |
1762 |
| author of the text: |
William Whitehead |
| composer of the music: |
William Boyce |
Data-note concerning dating | performances
(PJE, Tue Apr 5 08:18:30 2022, updated Tue Apr 5 08:30:18 2022): |
| The location of the ode’s text in The London Chronicle -- in column 3 on the first page of entries for ‘Friday June 4’ -- is supporting evidence that the ode was indeed performed (as the heading before the text claims) before the King at noon on his birthday. |
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| Number of texts stored: 2 |
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- Text #259 / Source: Complete Edition ... Poets of Great Britain, 11 (1795), p. 960
- Text #258 / Source: The London Chronicle, or Universal Evening Post, vol.11 no. 850 (2-5 June 1762), p. 529
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