Henry Carey

Henry Carey (c. August 26, 1687 – October 5, 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death.

Quotes

• God save our gracious king!
  Long live our noble king!
  God save the king!
  • "God Save the King" (1730).

• Genteel in personage,
  Conduct, and equipage;
  Noble by heritage,
  Generous and free.
  • The Contrivances (1715), Act i. Sc. 2.

• What a monstrous tail our cat has got!
  • The Dragon of Wantley (1737), Act ii. Sc. 1.

• Of all the girls that are so smart,
  There's none like pretty Sally.
  • Sally in our Alley (c. 1725). Compare: "Of all the girls that e’er was seen, There's none so fine as Nelly", Jonathan Swift, Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.

• Of all the days that's in the week
  I dearly love but one day,
  And that's the day that comes betwixt
  A Saturday and Monday.
  • Sally in our Alley (c. 1725).

Chrononhotonthologos (1734)

• Aldeborontiphoscophornio!
  Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?
  • Act i. Sc. 1.

• His cogitative faculties immersed
  In cogibundity of cogitation.
  • Act i. Sc. 1.

• Let the singing singers
  With vocal voices, most vociferous,
  In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
  Even sound itself.
  • Act i. Sc. 1.

• To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
  Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.
  • Act i. Sc. 3.

• The king shall eat, though all mankind be starved.
  • Act ii. Sc. 4.

• Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
  And let the man who calleth be the caller;
  And in his calling let him nothing call
  But “Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!”
  • Act ii. Sc. 4.