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Rh Said he, “I’ve a thought of my own:
 * Of the people, so stupid the taste is,

I could fill the new playhouse in June
 * If I only could furnish new faces.”

In addition to those I have named,
 * Harry Cruger78 was there in his glory,

That ci-devant jeune homme so famed
 * In Paris—but that’s an old story.

And General Lewis,79 by Jove!
 * With two vests, and a new fashioned eye-glass,

He looked like the young god of love
 * At distance beheld through a spy-glass.

I have read my first stanza again,
 * And find that for once I have erred:

For Robert and Mat were the men,
 * Instead of Buchanan and Sherred.

Two Frenchmen, the best I have met,
 * At home in bad English and flummery,

Were there—just to make up the set,
 * Together with Master Montgomery.80

Jack Nicholson81 wanted to come
 * With his pea-jacket on, but the ladies

Compelled him to leave it at home;
 * So he wore, as becoming his trade is,