Continually plagues us with Lectures from Heaven,
And robs us the Year round of one Day in seven;
Denies to the Passions the Flowers in their Road,
And carps at the varying Designs of the Mode!
It teaches few Fashions but such as, we find, 290
Have been hiss’d from good Company, Time out of Mind;
Affords us no rule for the Cut of a Coat,
Nor winks at the Science of cutting a Throat;
A tenth of each Man’s Cultivation commands,
And threatens us all in Return for our Lands;