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EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716 by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

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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