Court Odes: God of slaughter, quit the scene


 Selected item (#2115) = God of slaughter, quit the scene
 Attributes of this item 
incipit (first line(s), normalized): God of slaughter, quit the scene
version (if more than one exists):
the item's genre (general): ode
the item's genre (specific): New Year
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 sources (PJE, Sun Apr 10 21:57:54 2022, updated Mon Apr 11 08:05:29 2022):
See some impressive information-gathering in the submission of student Áine Mulligan (May 2020). Besides text #264 that she transcribed, Áine lists other printed versions of Whitehead’s text that are close contemporaries (1762 or 1763).
Number of texts stored: 2  
  • Text #265 / Source: Complete Edition ... Poets of Great Britain, 11 (1795), pp. 959-60
  • Text #264 / Source: The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, vol. 32 (London: D. Henry, 1762), 39.