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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    With loaded fubjeBs^ ah ! 'We fee . * • A Jack-afs in the next degree , When foon appear’d the emblematic brutes, With chimney-fweepers on their backs, That kicJid^ and fpurrd, and laJUd their hacks— 150 And well with fuch tame fooh the treatment fuits* Off gallop’d, for royal amufement, the Afles; ’Mid the haycocks they fcamper’d, and knock’d down the lafles— Girls fquall’d, the Court laugh’d, and the Jack-affes bray’d At the fight of the legs by the tumble difplay’d. 155 Vcrfes 146 and 147. With loaded fubjedls, ah! we fee A Jack-afs in the next degree,] “ The mighty mafter fmil’d to fee. That was in the next degree,” Dryden, , i ,