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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Henry Carey. (1687–1743)
 
3088
    God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
  God save the king!
          God save the King.
3089
    Aldeborontiphoscophornio!
Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?
          Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
3090
    His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.
          Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
3091
    Let the singing singers
With vocal voices, most vociferous,
In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
Even sound itself.
          Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
3092
    To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.
          Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3.
3093
    Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in his calling let him nothing call
But “Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!”
          Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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    Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.
          The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2.
3095
    What a monstrous tail our cat has got!
          The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1.
3096
    Of all the girls that are so smart,
  There ’s none like pretty Sally. 1
          Sally in our Alley.
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    Of all the days that ’s in the week
  I dearly love but one day,
And that ’s the day that comes betwixt
  A Saturday and Monday.
          Sally in our Alley.
 
Note 1.
Of all the girls that e’er was seen,
There ’s none so fine as Nelly.
Jonathan Swift: Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet. [back]