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Whose friendships, in the company they keep, Are like their pleasures, merely surface deep; Who patronise the few, the many spurn, And ridicule each other in return.

The leading foible of Humanity Both in the World and Church is vanity, A vanity which fosters indolence. And feeds itself at ruinous expense : Most men are vain, but vanity abounds In the fair sex, and common-sense confounds; Seen in the Play-house and the House of Prayer, In Rotten Row and almost everywhere, With an increasing number, who profess