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When new-imported Faces inset
Faces less recent in the street,
In Union-Passage, or Cock-Lane,
Where crowd the fashionable Train,
A kind of morning Jostling-bout,
Rehearsing for the Evening Rout;
Or settling the next day's devices,
At Morland's, over Soups and Ices:
Thus runs the chit-chat of the Springs,
Amongst a thousand other things;
The Rooms, the Play-house, and the Papers;
The Riders, Walkers, Scribblers, Scrapers;
Rauzzini,—Prince of Badon's Stringers,—
With all his Concerts and his Singers;
The Volunteers and Sailors hearty;
Pichegru, Moreau, and Buonaparte;
The Loungers, Dashers, Drinkers, Eaters;
The M. P. Lists of lovely Creatures;
The Fairies at Miss Fleming's Ball;
The Christie who out-fairy'd all;
The Elfin-Train of Elliston,
And which her dancing Laurel won:
The popular Divine for Sunday;
The extra-Bath-Gazettes for Monday;
The latest Fashion that came down,
Hat, Cap, and Shoe, Pelisse, and Gown;
The hopes, and how-do-you's polite;
The visit paid, and new invite;
The little Slander of the Day,
With many an et-cetera.