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First Line: Whence deathless kit-cat took its name
Last Line: Of old cats and young kits.
Subject(s): Kit-kat, Club; Names


Whence deathless Kit-Cat took its Name,
Few Criticks can unriddle;
Some say from Pastry Cook it came,
And some from Cat and Fiddle.
From no trim Beau's its Name it boasts,
Gray Statesman, or green Wits;
But from this pell-mell Pack of Toasts,
Of old Cats and young Kits.





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