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Or patronise the forms of godliness; Much too is there of cold formality In modernised conventionality; Both the idea of it and the word Imply restraints that ofttimes are absurd; Conventionality makes genteel slaves Of great folks, rich folks, simpletons and knaves; While he who breaks the rules of etiquette. Is deemed not to have learnt good manners yet. All classes have their similarities, Ariel all have their peculiarities; But in Society's superior schools All must submit to arbitrary rules; Conventionality presumes to fix The time Society should dine—at six— But grants it the long interval till nine. For feeding, gossip, and cigars and wine;