Alexander Pope (16881744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903. | | Poems: 171317 | Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club |
| Anno 1716 WHENCE deathless Kit-cat took its name, | |
Few critics can unriddle: | |
Some say from Pastrycook it came, | |
And some, from cat and fiddle. | |
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From no trim Beaux its name it boasts, | 5 |
Gray Statesmen, or green wits; | |
But from this pellmell pack of Toasts | |
Of old cats and young kits. | | | |
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