But everyone most certainly is free

To do as he or she considers best,

Of course it never has affected me,

Yet hollow show I really do detest;

But 'tis a theme of no immediate interest.

XXXIX.

It is so fashionable now-a-days

To give one's dwelling some fantastic name

To recommend it to the stranger's gaze,

Or afford it an imaginary claim

To more gentility than others; 'tis the same

In the metropolis, for folks arrange

(Flighty mammas, perhaps, are more to blame)

To call their homes “The Beeches” or “The Grange,”

For probably they think 'twill be a little change.

XL.

I don't condemn such names upon the gates

Of princely piles of luxury and ease,

Where the powdered footman silently awaits

My lord's commands and wishes, till he sees

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