Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April.

  • John Wolcot
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘‘ Vat fignifie de millions in our purfes, 13^ “If money do profoke de peepels curfes ? i “We v/on’t haf tumult—no fufli ting mufs fpread— “ Mine Gote ! half lotfhQ better dan no bread, “ Peety to make de Englis peepels groan ; “ So goote as poote de Prences ’pon de trone ; 14© “ Who foon, mine Gote! may take it in der brain, “Vat dey poote up^ dey may pull down again.” What founds of wifdom, Pitt, to make thee (brink I Beware !—thou ftand’ft on Danger’s giddy brink : Verfe 135. Vat Jtgnifie de millions.'] Notwithftanding her M ’s immcnfe piiopcrty, in one thing and another^ Ihe poffeflTes the moft economical circum- fpedion: witnefs the following pretty tale. A Mifs J-n-r, of Gloucefterfhire, , .with her mother, viewing the Palace of St. James’s, and entering her M ’s drefllng-room, where a cufhion full of pins lay on her toilette, the young Lady cxprcffed a ftrong defire for having one of the pns to carry into the country, and was reacliing out her hand to take one i when the Attendant, ftruck with a fudden horror, caught her arm, and told her it was impoflable to be granted, as her M would certainly find it out.—D’ye think I might change a pin ?” fighed the young Lady, with anxiety. Mifs,” replied the Attendant, after fome confideration, ** it is probable hef M may not find that out, but I’ll run the rifk.” 3 Know,