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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$Rich fpot! whence Millions take their eafy wing, To bribe an Emp’ror, and refrejh a King ; / Where, blefl, ye bumper it in England’s caufe, Belch Opposition’s fall, and hiccup laws; 280 With equal fpirit, where each work fucceeds, A Bottle now, and now a Nation bleeds^ Ah, Pitt ! of late thy counfels draw difgrace: The fpring-tide of thy fortune ebbs apace. When reputation fickensy toil is vain— ' 285 No nojlrum gives the bloom of health again ! No more (fo grateful to the fenfe) a rofey It drops, a putrid carcafcy to the crows. I mark the pompous column of thy fame, Fafl: crumbling to the dull from whence it came; 290 Verfe 278. And refrejh a King.] His mof honourable Majefty, our \2itt good and firm Ally, the King of PrulTia, like the Gentlemen of the Bar, requires very often a refrejher before his Cannon can plead, Verfe 287. No more (Jo grateful to thefenfe) a rofe.'] To avoid an ambiguity here (for I have been queftioned about it), 1 mean the fweeufmelling rofe of the fields, not Mr. George Rofe, of the Treafury, And$