A Sequel to Don Juan — page 71: what you’re looking at

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62 ; A SEQUEL To CLX VII. And yet some debtors make the Bench a palace By dint of racquets, porter, pipes, and brandy ; *Tis therefore hard to bear the lawyer malice Who sent them where such luxuries are handy. But debtors’ favourite colony is Calais, Whither proceeds many a self-exiled dandy To vegetate at Dessin’s or. Meurice’s, | When cash is gone, and tick in London ceases, CLX VIII. And, by the bye, when I reflect, Beau Brummei! Has walked in Calais with his short surtout : * Though he did Alvanley and others some ill, And in that money-business played the Jew, Yet would he strike the vulgar rabble dumb. III I could not speak of him, so well he knew The fashion for a cravat or a waistcoat, And never for a Sunday kept a best coat.+ * Brummell first wore the frock-coat or short surtout, which is still in fashion. + Brummell used to say nothing could be more vulgar than the idea.of keeping a particular suit of clothes for Sunday, and that no gentleman ought to be better dressed on the Sabbath than on any other day. ‘‘ On the contrary,” would the Beau observe ; ‘cif I did make any difference, I would actually dress worse on Sunday ; because all the snobs turn out in their best suits, redeemed over-nicht from pawn, upon that day.’’- The author frequently met Brummell at Leleux’s library in Calais, where the Beau occupied lodgings for a length of time. 3 Comichooksco