To the Right Honourable the Earl of Thomond, at Bath; who charg'd the Author with making an Irish Bull. Mary Barber Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T42622 519 p. 45 Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 pp. 187-188. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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To the Right Honourable the Earl of Thomond "Henry O'Brien, seventh Earl of Thomond." (Tucker [1992], 223) , at Bath ; who charg'd the Author with making an Irish Bull . Obrian , we're in Story told , Thy Ancestors wore Crowns of old : In fair Hibernia's Isle they reign'd ; A Country , by their Sons disdain'd ! Too apt to charge their Native Isle With ev'ry Vice of Speech and Style : Yet thy Elizabeth Countess of Thomond , Daughter of Charles Duke of Somerset , and Lady Elizabeth Piercy . Eliza , great and good , Of Seymour's , and of Piercy's Blood , ( Whose Ancestors , to Fame well known , When injur'd , shook the British Throne ; ) Will not thy native Isle deride , Tho' to an higher Crown ally'd . And shall Hibernia fear Disgrace , From Thomond , of Milesian Race ? It ill becomes thee thus to treat Thy Family's Imperial Seat . Great Bryen Boiroimke , King of Ireland , remarkable in History for his Valour in Defence of his Country , Hospitality , &c. from whom the present Earl of Thoinond is lineally descended . Boiroimke ! look down and see This Change in thy Posterity ; Who quit all Titles to thy Throne , But Hospitality alone .