Oh, dear, I've just rediscovered this thread. Ralph, please don't retire your muse.
Allen, the line from Pygmalion is slightly different in the play. There is no Ascot in the original. The Catullus piece was written first for a competition but later appeared in a collection called Between Dryden and Duffy, along with a version of Catullus's poem no.32 and a riposte from the addressee thereof, "The Love Song of Ipsitilla".
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