Seated dandy at left:
"D--n it, I really believe I must take off my cravat
or I shall never get my trousers on.
Quite a new sort of creatures, unknown yet to scholars,
With heads so immovably stuck in shirt-collars
That seats like our music-stools soon must be found them
To twirl, when the creatures may wish to look round them!
"Walked at three p.m. at Long's 1
... Ordered some chocolate, but could not get it down: drank three
glasses of Danzig brandy. Thought I looked d----d well, after
shaving, washing my face in olympian dew, putting on a little of
the light brown and a touch of rouge to give a
lustre to my eye...Musked myself highly and put white wax in my
nails. Sent to Pall Mall for Scott's 2
foreman and kept him an hour instructing him how to pad my coat
on the breast and on the shoulders, to put very thick lining and
padding in the sleeves...and to come down taper at the wrist
like a lady's sleeve...Put on my stays; broke three laces..."
Just like an hour-glass or a wasp,
So tightened he could scarcely gasp.
Cold was the nymph who did not dote
Upon him in his new-built coat;
Whose heart could parry the attacks
Of those voluminous cossacks.
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