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… between the Queen and her female zebra was so notable that a humorous allegorical song was composed: ‘What prospect so charming! / What can surpass? / The delicate sight of her M------‘s A--?’. 1 This rude song surviving in a printed … was a newspaper commentary about the camels’ breath printed in 1758 in Mist’s Journal : ‘The ladies are especially charmed with them; and express great satisfaction at the sweetness of their breath, and the neatness of their apartment’. …
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