Note 42 — Chapter XVI · REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. (CONTINUED). 1705 TO 1715.
Frances Cashel Hoey translation
“When a thing is new, That suffices to make it handsome, And little is thought about other things, La, la, la, &c. “No matter who invents it, So that it is extravagant, Good taste yields to it, La, la, la, &c. “But it disappears Almost as soon as it appears, For all changes and will change, La, la, la, &c.”