Hour after hour, men thus contending sit,

Grave without sense, and pointed without wit.

Thus it appears these envied Clubs possess

No certain means of social happiness;

Yet there’s a good that flows from scenes like these -

Man meets with man at leisure and at ease;

We to our neighbours and our equals come,

And rub off pride that man. contracts at home;

For there, admitted master, he is prone

To claim attention and to talk alone: