Felt wrath for trifles, and were proud to feel,

Now find those trifles all the mind engage,

To soothe dull hours, and cheat the cares of age;

As young Zelinda, in her quaker-dress,

Disdain’d each varying fashion’s vile excess,

And now her friends on old Zelinda gaze,

Pleased in rich silks and orient gems to blaze:

Changes like these ’tis folly to condemn,

So virtue yields not, nor is changed with them.

Let us proceed: - Twelve brilliant years were past,