To keep the wheels going of the higher class,

And draw them nightly when a ticket's sent;

And what with masquerades, and fêtes, and balls,

For the first season such a life scarce palls.

LVIII.

A young unmarried man, with a good name

And fortune, has an awkward part to play;

For good society is but a game,

"The royal game of Goose,"[636] as I may say,

Where everybody has some separate aim,