3 It is really ludicrous to observe the ridiculous pride of
some of these ephemeral things;--during their mayoralty, the
gaudy city vehicle with four richly caparisoned horses is
constantly in the drive, with six or eight persons crammed
into it like a family waggon, and bedizened out in all the
colours of the rainbow;--ask for them six months after, and
you shall find them more suitably employed, packing rags,
oranges, or red herrings.
4 This man is such a strange compound of folly and
eccentricity, that he is eternally in hot water with some
one or other.
5 Mrs. Fanny G-1-s, the ci-devant wife of a corn merchant,
a celebrated courtezan, who sports a splendid equipage, and
has long figured upon town as a star of the first order in
the Cyprian hemisphere. She has some excellent qualities,
as poor M---------n can vouch; for when the fickle goddess
Fortune left him in the lurch, she has a handsome annuity
from a sporting peer, who was once the favoured swain.
~168~~
From out her carriage peeps;
She nods to am'rous Mrs. D-----,{6}
Who bends with most sublime congee,
While ruin'd-----------sleeps.
Who follows 1 'tis the hopeful son
Of the proud Earl of H-----------n,
Who stole the parson's wife.
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