The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… THE Kit-Cats, &c. I Sing the Assembly's Rise, Encrease and Fame, That condescends to honour Kit-Cats Name, Whose Pride, like thine, O Rome, from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and … noble Projects, didst this Order found. And still dost cherish, cultivate and guide Thy humble Creature, and with decent Pride Dost, like the God of Wine , the Kit-Cat state bestride. Gracious appear, as when thou mount's thy Seat High in the … to both great Aquisitions came, To him the Profit, and to 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 …
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