“Of all the girls that are so smart,
There's none like pretty Sally.”

—  Henry Carey

Sally in our Alley (c. 1725). Compare: "Of all the girls that e’er was seen, There's none so fine as Nelly", Jonathan Swift, Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.

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English composer and playwright 1687–1743

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