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A famous gallant, of Parisian renown, / A Fop of the most extravagant taste, / Who silver and gold like water would waste, / With a new suit each day to dazzle the town, -- / On the festival day of his lady love placed / On his shoes two paltry buckles of tin; / In order to show, by this frivolous whim, / That he courted not fame, but that fame courted him.
"What beautiful silver, so brilliant and gay!"
Said the lady. "Huzza for the taste and the rule / Of the master of fashion, the pride of our day!"
Thus a volume of nonsense, or, I am a fool, / The world will devour, if subscribed with the name / Of a popular author, established in fame.