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The Balls and Feasts of good society— Which some indulge in to satiety— Have their formalities and miseries Of all varieties, in all degrees; Though with the best of luxury's resources, While 'much ado on nothing' their discourse is, Or—to quote Cowper's words, tis dull and dry,' Embellished with—'He said, and so said I': There, wealth and pampered pride, and costly dress. The standards are of social worthiness;