A Sequel to Don Juan — page 69: what you’re looking at

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GO A SEQUEL TO CLXI. And yet the law of primogeniture Is thought most salutary—and, in spite Of the republicans, seems to endure.— ’T would be as well if those who have the right Of handing down their titles, could ensure The honour of their wives, because they might Confer a barony or earldom on Bill Tunks’, (Joe Smith’s, or Harry Tomkins’ son. \ © CLXII. W hat is the world of fashion, then ?—I said _ Hre now, and I repeat—dissimulation Is its chief quality ! ’Tis the hot-bed Of every vice and all contamination : In vain the sweetest flowers may there be spread— Each virgin tint proclaims the devastation Of the unwholesome heat and air, which wither The purest blossoms that are taken thither. CLXIL. There is no virtue in the highest sphere, Nor in the very lowest ;—for the first, Possessing riches, thinks no price too dear, So that it gratify its ardent thirst For pleasure ; while those long deep draughts appear To give new zest ;—and the last grade, accurst By Want and all his cavalcade of woe, Cannot afford compunction’s thoughts to know. cComicbooks;com