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The man of lawn sleeves, and the man of straw, The man of Letters, and the man of Law, The merchant, and the master of a shop. The old Roué, and the gamester, and the fop. In betting slang and stable chaff experts, Or in small talk with fashionable flirts; Some too, through secret sins, half paralytics; Others all dandyism and cosmetics, Insipid creatures, sauntering to and fro. Whom some pretend not to, nor will not, know; The scheming dame, the ball-room butterfly, And frail Anonymas, their spells to try, On rich old fools, or youthful profligates. And eye-glass'd exquisites with brainless pates; Creatures with hollow hearts and muddled heads,