For the Benefit of Mr. EDWIN.
At the THEATRE-ROYAL HAYMARKET,
on Thursday next, August 27, 1789, will be presented a FARCE...
In the course of the Farce,
QUOZ,
A New Comic Song, by Mr EDWIN.
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- Hey for buckiſh words, for phraſes we've a paſſion
- Immenſely great and little once, were all the faſhion;
- Hum'd and then humbugg'd, twaddy, tippy, poz
- All had their day, but now muſt yield to quoz.
- Walk about the ſtreet, each time you turn your head, ſir,
- Pop, ſtaring in your phiz, is Q, U, O, and Z, ſir;
- Cries madam dip to deary, 'tis monſtrous ſcandaloz,
- To write on people's ſhutters that ſhameful naſty quoz,
- Once it was the Barber, for every thing that's right,
- The shaver knock'd the barber quickly out of ſight;
- Now we've got a new word, how invented 'twas,
- If you aſk, I'll tell —— , my anſwer, ſir, is quoz.
- The hobby-horſe of late we rode about with ſpeed,
- For drinking, wenching, gaming, was the word indeed;
- Then macaroni, bore, and rage, never ſure the like was,
- Yet all that ſort of thing, gave way to little quoz.
- Tipſy, dizzy, muzzy, ſucky, groggy muddled,
- Boſky, blind as Chloe; mops and brooms and fuddled,
- Florid, torrid, horrid, ſtayboz, heyboz, layboz,
- Words with terminations, not ſo good as quoz.
- But when quozzy came, tippy, bore, and twaddle,
- Bucks of bluſt'ring fame cou'd not keep their ſaddle;
- One attempts to rally — bully quiz it was,
- But by nightly sally, deals him little quoz.
- There's a jack to roaſt your meat, a jack to hold your liquor,
- Jack upon the green, to amuſe the vicar;
- Jacks of various ſorts — Jack's a quiz, becauſe
- Jack gives way to gill, and ſo does quiz to quoz.
- Some may think it French, ſome may call it Latin,
- Some give in this meaning, others will give that in;
- Mean it what it will, or ſenſe or non compos,
- The meaning, I ſhould think, the meaning muſt be quoz.
- Suppoſe we ſay 'tis drinking; ſuppoſe it means a dinner;
- Suppoſe a methodiſt, ſuppoſe a wicked ſinner;
- To finiſh my ſuppoſe, ſuppoſe I make a pauſe,
- I've hit it now — 'tis thank ye — and ſo good people quoz.
As printed in The New Vocal Enchantress, 1791
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