I’ll take my oath, that Shakespeare won the prize,—
Damme! whoever says he lost it, lies.
Shakespeare’s Garland. Being a Collection of New Songs, Ballads, Roundelays, Catches, Glees, Comic Serenatas, etc., performed at the Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon, 1769, p. 16.
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, 1769
(d. 1812?)
“Queen Mab. A Cantata.”
Recitative
Not long ago, ’tis said, a proclamation
Was sent abroad through all the Fairy nation;
Mab to her loving subjects—A decree,