Great neighbours enviously promote excess,

While they impose their splendour on the less;

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But only fools, and they of vast estate,

The extremity of modes will imitate,

The dangling knee-fringe, and the bib-cravat,

Yet if some pride with want may be allowed,

We in our plainness may be justly proud;

Our Royal Master willed it should be so;

Whate'er he's pleased to own, can need no show: