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

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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$Let Queensu’rv nobly pinch his CypTid,n finnings^ 235- And (lately Cumberland her Faro winnings j Let Madam S— g make up wry faces, Something fhould come in troth from fales of places* Say, what the tax thy brain will next provide ? Alas I why not attack the Human Hide ? 240' Lord, Lord ! how much it muft the Nation aid I Folks may h^fcalfd with fafety—why not flay d f ’^Tis verily a fhame—a crying fin, The world fhould bear about a ulelefs (kin ; What’s worfe, that (kins fhould in the grave be laid, 24.5 So beautiful an article of trade^ Verfe 236. Jiately Ctmherland.'\ As one of the great Supporters of Morality, for fuch every Mufe fhould be, I have feveral times had it in contemplation to give this Dame' a public rap on the knuckles for certain parfimony to fome of the poor difbanded and faithful fervants of her houfehold, after the death of her fimple Duke. The tale however is too full of matter for a folitary Note, and may, fome time or other, give importance to an Ode. Verfe 237. Let Madam (S’——^.] This great Lady kept one of the firft. Sale-fhops in England. Think$