The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… Name, Whose Pride, like thine, O Rome, from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and Statesmen love or fear: Who with an uncontroul'd, Despotic Sway, Dost still new Burdens on thy Subjects lay; … them the Fame. On the fair Strand by which with graceful Pride Unrivall'd Thames rolls his alternate Tyde, Between the Courts which most the People awe, (In one the Monarch Reigns, in one the Law) A slately Building rear'd its lofty Head, Which both the Thames and Town around survey'd. Here crown'd with Clusters Bacchus kept his Court, Where mighty Vats his Chearful Throne support; High o'er the Grte he hung his waving Sign, A Fountain Red with …
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