Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
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VISIT TO LONDON. 69<br />
" The cadences of the anthem had scarcely<br />
died away among the aisles of the Abbey,<br />
when <strong>Peter</strong> Parley was startled at the<br />
sound<br />
of youthful voices, singing at their highest<br />
pitch. He directed his eyes <strong>to</strong>wards the<br />
spot whence the sound proceeded,<br />
and found<br />
it was the Westminster scholars, who, according<br />
<strong>to</strong> an ancient and established cus<strong>to</strong>m,<br />
greeted their sovereign<br />
with a kind of<br />
chaunt, ' Vivat Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Regina !'<br />
" At the conclusion of this chaunt, which,<br />
though not the most harmonious, struck <strong>Peter</strong><br />
Parley as certainly not the least interesting<br />
part of the greeting, the Archbishop of Canterbury,<br />
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Great<br />
Chamberlain, and the Earl Marshal, advanced<br />
and commenced the ceremony of the Coro-
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