Shall have her meat and pudding sent,

If that robs me of your consent.

Of course it is quite right of you

To seek excuse, but make them few,

I pray you, sir, for greatly I

Prefer unformal courtesy.

For what is fashion but a chain to bind

The wretch called man with tortures of some kind,—

The small-toed shoe, to grind his very corns,—

The wasted waist, which age for ever mourns,—