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Ambrose Philips

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Anglo-Irish poet and politician

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According to Wikipedia, Ambrose Philips was an English poet and politician. He feuded with other poets of his time, resulting in Henry Carey bestowing the nickname "Namby-Pamby" upon him, which came to mean affected, weak, and maudlin speech or verse.

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