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They told him, the chorus was generally unmeaning. 'I take it, said he, 'Erse songs are like a song which I remember: it was composed in Queen Elizabeth's time, on the Earl of Essex; and the burthen was "Radaratoo, radarate, radara tadara tandore."
'But surely, said Mr M'Queen, 'there were words to it, which had meaning. JOHNSON. 'Why, yes, sir, I recollect a stanza, and you shall have it: "O! then bespoke the prentices all, Living in London, both proper and tall, For Essex's sake they would fight all. Radaratoo, radarate, radara, tadara, tandore."
'I wish I was, said Lord Rotherwood, 'it would be much better fun. I should escape the speechifying, the worst part of it. 'Yes, said Claude, 'for one whose speeches will be scraps of three words each, strung together with the burthen of the apprentices' song, Radara tadara, tandore. 'Radaratade, said the Marquis, laughing.
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