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How all the needy honourable misters,

Each out-at-elbow peer, or desperate dandy,

The watchful mothers, and the careful sisters,

(Who, by the by, when clever, are more handy

At making matches, where “ ’tis gold that glisters,”

Than their he relatives), like flies o’er candy

Buzz round “the Fortune” with their busy battery,

To turn her head with waltzing and with flattery!