Tommy Titmouse Thomas Paine Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Cleary, Scott M., ed. Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Vol. II. Part 2: Poetry. Princeton Princeton UP 2026 pp. []-[]. 5 Volumes.

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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 . ”

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