A Favorite Song in the Farmer: Parodied for the present Occasion by S W F Object: The British Farmer become a British Soldier & Rallying round Magna Charta
Song sheet with engraved illustration of 2 soldiers with Magna Charta banner, outdoors, published Nov. 5, 1803. BM description reads: 'Political satire: two soldiers in the countryside rallying to a flag labelled "Magna Charta", on a post labelled "United British Volunteers", above a song celebrating the Magna Carta, with an added verse declaring Britons will die in the cause rather than suffer a Corsican tyrant to give them new laws'. Song sheet with engraved illustration of 2 soldiers with Magna Charta banner, outdoors, published Nov. 5, 1803. BM description reads: 'Political satire: two soldiers in the countryside rallying to a flag labelled "Magna Charta", on a post labelled "United British Volunteers", above a song celebrating the Magna Carta, with an added verse declaring Britons will die in the cause rather than suffer a Corsican tyrant to give them new laws'. Upright folio, matted; plate mark, margins trimmed close; soiled; tape residue on back. Camden, Me., Staack, 1961.
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