The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17
(1716) by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner
Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club

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This work was probably written by Alexander Pope. See The Works of Alexander Pope (1995). Wordsworth Edition Ltd. p. 392.

EPIGRAM

ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB.

ANNO 1716.

WHENCE deathless Kit-Cat took its name,
⁠Few criticks can unriddle:
Some say from pastrycook it came,
⁠And some, from cat and fiddle.
From no trim beaux its name it boasts,
⁠Gray statesmen, or green wits;
But from this pellmell pack of toasts
⁠Of old cats and young kits.