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Updated: May 15, 2025

John Plaintext, He shall be mighty beef, our English staple; The worthy Alderman, a butter'd dumpling; Yon pair of whisker'd Cornets, ruffs and rees: Their friend the Dandy, a green goose in sippets. And so the hoard is spread at once and fill'd On the same principle Variety.

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery