Their grim disappointment to drown.

Good-bye to the Season—but truly,

To all its chief items go through

Would lengthen our rhymes so unduly,

We dare not the subject pursue;

Nor dwell on those purse-proud pretenders,

Who, ever so ill at their ease,

Give dinners, whose shoddyish splendours

Are far too oppressive to please,

And who, wheresoever we find them—