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One dignity delays for all, / One mitred afternoon. / None can avoid this purple, / None evade this crown.
Coach it insures, and footmen, / Chamber and state and throng; / Bells, also, in the village, / As we ride grand along.
What dignified attendants, / What service when we pause! / How loyally at parting / Their hundred hats they raise!
How pomp surpassing ermine, / When simple you and I / Present our meek escutcheon, / And claim the rank to die!