Snuff, or the Fan, supply each Pause of Chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. A third interprets Motions, Looks, and Eyes At ev'ry Word a Reputation dies. Hither the Heroes and the Nymphs resort, To taste awhile the Pleasures of a Court In various Talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the Ball, or paid the Visit last: One speaks the Glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian Screen. Here Britain's Statesmen oft the Fall foredoom Of Foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take-and sometimes Tea. Close by those Meads for ever crown'd with Flow'rs, Where Thames with Pride surveys his rising Tow'rs, There stands a Structure of Majestick Frame, Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its Name.
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