James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
December 6Kitty Clive
By Charles Churchill (17321764)
I
For humour famed, and humour all her own,
Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod,
Nor sought the critic’s praise, nor feared his rod.
Original in spirit and in ease,
She pleased by hiding all attempts to please:
No comic actress ever yet could raise,
On humour’s base, more merit or more praise.