The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… 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; Who Tax'd by … 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 great Assembly, to create Some Peer a Member of the Kit-Cat State. Or, when Apollo like, thour't pleas'd to lead Thy Sons to feast on Hampsteads airy Head; Hampstead , that now in …
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