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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    But fee 1 each hopelefs wight with fury foams ; His curling-iron breaks, and fnaps his combs ; 50 Ah! doom’d to fhut their mouths as well as (hops; For dead is ciiftom, ’mid the world of Crops. In fancy now I mark the frequent race; I fee th’ Informer polls of powder chafe I On this, on that, a Footman, Maid of mop, 5 5 Fierce as the tiger from his ambufh, pop ; Now in his cruel clutches, Iharp and ftrong, To Bow-ftreet drag his powder’d prey along: And now I fee the Mor, in Mercy’s caufe, Redeem the vidim from his favage paws; 60 Verfe 52. World of Crops.'] Such is the univerfal difguft at the Powder-tax, that many thoufands of the male fex have already facrificed their favourite curls, to difappoint the rapacity of a Minister.