I think a free rendering of a fancy of Hugh Conway’s on the Blue-and-White China Craze was one of the first things he did for the stage and it contained some charming lyrics after the Elizabethan manner which won instant recognition.
I quote three of them, for they were never printed for the public.
From The United Pair.
DUET: SONG OF THE TWO CHINA-COLLECTORS.
Sextus.
A love like mine is far above
The thing that we are told is love,
In Shakespeare or in Chaucer.
For while they are content to praise