A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) / [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)

by Henry Carey

Now my Namby Pamby’s found

Sitting on the Friar’s Ground,

Picking Silver, picking Gold,

Namby Pamby’s never Old.

Bally-Cally they begin,

Namby Pamby still keeps-in.

Namby Pamby is no Clown,

London-Bridge is broken down:

Now he courts the gay Ladee,

Dancing o’er the Lady-Lee: