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There too, designing scoundrels, and the flirt,— To captivate and teaze, their right assert; While others gaze, each other to decry. With hatred, malice, and hypocrisy; With smooth tongues asking—'Are you in good health?' Yet envying their equipage or wealth; With fussy words of seeming tenderness, Concealing jealousy and bitterness. How frivolous the objects that engage High-life attention in the present Age! And some indeed are such absurdities. That were it worth one's time to exercise