Tommy Titmouse

As specimens of the manner in which the lighter arms of the Argus were employed by the author of the Rights of Man, he wrote the following epigrams on the heir to the Onslow estates, who then signalised himself as a four-in-hand, by driving a team of little cropped horses, compared to tom-tits or tit-mice, and which begat him the nick-name of Tommy Titmouse.

1 Pray what can Tommy Titmouse do?
2 Why drive a phaeton and two.
3 Can Tommy Tit do nothing more?
4 Yes, drive a phaeton and four!

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Title (in Source Edition): Tommy Titmouse
Author: Thomas Paine
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Genres: occasional poem
Headnote: Monthly Magazine, December 1822

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Cleary, Scott M., ed. Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Vol. II. Part 2: Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2026. 5 Volumes.

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