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> [!SUMMARY]
> [[Hester Thrale née Salusbury|Hester Piozzi]] and [[Gabriel Piozzi]] celebrated their nineteenth anniversary on 25 July 1803.
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<div class="caption">Gabriel Piozzi 1793 by George Dance.</div>
> [!QUOTE] To Mr Piozzi 25: July 1803—[[Brynbella]]
> Accept my Love this honest Lay
> Upon your TwentiethWedding Day:
> I little hop'd our Lives would stay
> To hail the Twentieth Wedding Day.
> If you're grown Gouty[^1] — I grown Gray
> Upon our Twentieth Wedding day—
> Tis no great Wonder;—Friends must say
> ““Why tis their Twentieth Wedding Day.””
> Perhaps there's few feel less Decay
> Upon a Twentieth Wedding day:
> And many of those who used to pay
> Their Court upon our Wedding Day,
> Have melted off, and died away
> Before our Twentieth Wedding Day.
> Those Places too, which once so gay,
> Bore Witness to our Wedding Day;
> Florence and Milan blythe as May
> Marauding French[^2] have made their Prey.
> The World itself’s in no good Way,
> On this our Twentieth Wedding Day.
> If then—of Gratitude one Ray
> Illuminates our Wedding Day,
> Think midst the Wars and wild Affray
> That rage around this Wedding day,
> What Mercy 'tis—we are spar'd to say
> We have seen our Twentieth Wedding-day.”
## See also
![[hester-lynch-thrale-1741-1821🔎#^hester-lynch-thrale-infoblock]]
#history/person/SALUSBURY/hester-lynch-born-1741
#history/person/PIOZZI/gabriel-mario-born-before-1740
#history/place/england/surrey/streatham/streatham-park
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[^1]: [[Gabriel Piozzi]] suffered from gout.
[^2]: The [French Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution) was happening when this was written.