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Thread #109281   Message #2284246
Posted By: Bryn Pugh
10-Mar-08 - 09:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Favorite Poem?
Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Poem?
From 'Namby Pamby' - Henry Carey, which ridicules the lisping, would-be pastoral style of Ambrose Phillips.

Phillips wrote about the Duke of Summatorother's daughter :

'Dimply damsel, sweetly smiling . . . '

Tartaretta Tartaree
From the navel tothe knee
That her father's Gracy-grace
Might give him a placy-place . . .

Now the venal poet sings
Little clouts and little things.
Little houses, little toys-
Little girls - and little boys . . .