A Sequel to Don Juan — page 72: what you’re looking at

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DS ee) DON JUAN. -CLXIX. God gave the first idea of clothes for men, And women too, as Genesis avows : He made them out of broad fig-leaves, and then Sewed them together cleverly with boughs. But Brummell was a better tailor, when He formed (as his biographer allows ). The patterns of his waistcoats and his breeches, And even learnt to put in a few stitches. CLXX., Leibnitz, Descartes, Copernicus, and Newton Were very clever, doubtless, in astronomy : But ereater still was Brummell, with a suit on That showed a disregard for all economy ; Although, whene’er he put a coat or boot on, It might be with a lengthened physiognomy, To think how bills increase, and money lacks, And how the duns are ever at our backs. CLX XI In Burke’s ‘‘ Reflections on the Revolution,” *Tis said that Marie was the morning: star Of light and beauty to the Constitution :— If she could thus illuminate, how far. More lustrous, Brummell! to the English you shone, For while she was the spring of civil war, When the French nation fell into a passion, You were the modeller of every fashion ! COMmiclooks. conn