Are mightily taken with scarlet and gold.
The Foresters[79] danced, arrayed all in green,
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With the Clear Wings,[80] whose beauty gave life to the scene;
The Mouse,[81] quite enamoured, entreated in vain
The hand of the lovely Pease Blossom[82] to gain,
And the Satellite,[83] though he till now had sat still,
Made up to the Seraph[84] to dance a quadrille.
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The Quakers,[85] who ne’er had been seen at a ball,
With the Coronets[86] galloped around the great hall,
And the sad Mourning Widow,[87] her weeds put away,