The clothes—their different duties made to pay,

To deck the stage by night, the street by day;

The pictures slyly drawn on Hogarth’s plan,

Garrick i’ the lanthorn—Quin in the sedan;

The toilet stocked to decorate the play,

Paint, Indian ink, burnt cork, and whiting gay;

While on the clothes-pins rang’d in gaudy show,

Robes deck’d with foil-stones, glittered in a row.

Vain transitory splendours could not all

Reprieve the mimic monarch from his fall.