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The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

Note 10 — BACKING THE FAVOURITE.

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The late favourite of the King’s Theatre, who left the pas seul of life, for a perpetual Ball. Is not that her effigy now commonly borne about by the Italian image vendors—an ethereal form holding a wreath with both hands above her head—and her husband, in emblem, beneath her foot?

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