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Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.

— Henry Carey The Contrivances (1715)

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Of all the girls that are so smart,
There's none like pretty Sally.

Sally in our Alley (1725)

The king shall eat, though all mankind be starved.

Chrononhotonthologos (1734)

His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.

Chrononhotonthologos (1734)

Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!

To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.

Chrononhotonthologos (1734)

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