Ned Ward on the Kit-Cat Club (1709) [ Practices ]
… for many Years, have been the Grand Monopolizers of those scandalous Commodities in this Fighting Age, viz . Wit and Poetry , had first the honour to be founded by an Amphibeous Mortal, Chief Merchant to the Muses; and in these Times of … his new Rhiming Customers, that they thought it a scandal to the Muses that so Heavenly a Banquet should go untag'd with Poetry, where the Ornamental Folds of every lushious Cheese-Cake , and the artful Walls of every Golden Custard , …
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