Elegant Extracts from the British Poets, 1824.
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Fashion.
A Paraphrase of L’Allegro.
Hence, loath’d vulgarity,
Of Ignorance and native Dullness bred,
In low unwholesome shed,
’Mongst thieves and drabs, and street sweeps, asking charity:
Find some suburban haunt,
Where the spruce ’prentice treats his flashy mate,
And smoking cits debate: