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The Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1751, mentions Coan as one of several uncommon natural curiosities then being exhibited in the metropoKs. THE NORFOLK DWAEF. 321 On the 5th of that month he was shown to the Royal Society, at their house in Crane-court. The London, Gazette for January 10th, 1752, says : " On Wed- nesday evening, Mr. John Coan, the Norfolk dwarf, was sent for to Leicester House by her Royal High- ness the Princess Dowager of Wales, and was imme- diately introduced before he...r, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Princess Augusta, and all the other Princes and Princesses being pre- sent, where he staid upwards of two hours ; and we are assnred by the pertinency of his answers, actions, ■and behaviour, their Royal Highnesses were most agreeably entertained the whole time, and made him a very handsome present." The same newspaper for January 14th adds, that " on Wednesday, when Mr. John Coan, the Norfolk dwarf, who is now to be seen at the watchmaker's, facing the Cannon Tavern, Charing-cross, was at Leicester House, and had the honour of being introduced to their Royal Highnesses, he repeated the following lines : " Behold, most gracious Princes I at your feet, In miniature, a man of form complete : If honour'd thus, too blithly I behave, pardon at this time your little slave, Who inward blesses his peculiar fate That made him small, to pleasure you so great.
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