… well as a political institution. Poetry written for the club’s toasting glasses by Lord Halifax and others appeared in print, paying homage to aristocratic ladies known for their beauty, wit or other qualities, the ‘toasts of the town’. 6 … elsewhere, used phallic-shaped ‘prick glasses’. 7 6 . ‘Verses Written for the Toasting-Glasses of the Kit-Cat Club’, printed in The Toasters Compleat. With the Last Additions (London: s.n., 1704), and reprinted in John Dryden, The fifth part of Miscellany poems. Containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets: …