A Sequel to Don Juan — page 67: what you’re looking at

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58 A SEQUEL TO CLV. Juan and Lady Pinchbeck both were right The silken chains of fashion to contemn: Por my part, half in scorn, and half in spite, I long ago have learnt to laugh at them. Fashion luxuriates in nectar bright, But in the bowl dissolves sweet Freedom’s gem :— Most courteous reader, take my sage advice— Pay not for your ambrosia such a price. CLVI. Alt bursts of generous feeling to subdue— Ever to play dissimulation’s part— To flatter where contempt alone 1s due— To talk of friendship with a hollow heart-— To pass off ancient compliments for new— To lie without a blush—to know the art Of keeping every feature in controul, So that no outward sign betray the soul ;— CLVII. This is the duty of the world of fashion— A sphere made up of falsehood and deceit. Hypocrisy conceals each evil passion, Which therefore concentrates a greater heat Within ;—and as the boiling torrents dash on, When loosened from the reservoir where meet Those floods that from the snow-capped mounts have passed,— So do these passions burst their bonds at last. COPNICLOOKS. Cin)