Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April.

  • Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But Pitt and Grenville were not there, To whom a puppet-fhow is dear— Too fmall decorU7n on a certain debt, Repell’d the Pair from royal fport, 30 Whofe want of manners put the Court, Like four fmall beer, indeed, upon the fret. No, no—the Cousins were not afk’d indeed 1 ! ‘ . Broad hints, though giv’n, by no means could fucceed; Nought could prevail, alas ! nor tears, nor lighs ! 35 The Zephyr, that fcarce moves the //^’s head. As foon might lift Old Ocean from his bed. And dafh his inild of waters to the Jkm, Verfe 29. TVo fmall decorum.] Not a fingle card of invitation was fent from Wmdfor or Carleton-Hoiife. Violent were the r—1 difpleafures in the beginning ; but the Poet, in the true fpirit of Chriftianity, hopes that he fliall not be able to fay, like the Liturgy, “ As it was in the beginnings is noiv, and ever Jhall be, world without end.” Saunt’ring