Keep it up. (An electioneering song.)
Common-council-man.
[Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
1774]
A slip-song - "The cream of all virtues is sweet Watty O,".
A variant has no bracket before "An".
Signed: A common-council-man.
The subject of the song is "Watty O", i.e. Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, standing in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne parliamentary election of 1774.
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