"Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation out-vociferize Even sound itself."
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Henry Carey
Henry Carey (c. August 26, 1687 – October 5, 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death.
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