CHARLOT.
The paltry ambition of levying and following titles.
SERJEANT.
Titles! I don't understand you?
CHARLOT.
I mean the poverty of fastening in public upon men of distinction, for no other reason but because of their rank; adhering to Sir John till the Baronet is superceded by my Lord; quitting the puny Peer for an Earl; and sacrificing all three to a Duke.
SERJEANT.
Keeping good company! a laudable ambition!
CHARLOT.
True, Sir, if the virtues that procur'd the father a peerage, could with that be entail'd on the son.