Transcribed from the L. B. Seeley 1817 (eighth) edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org, using scans made available by the British Library. [Picture: Book cover] THE Fashionable World DISPLAYED. * * * * * BY THE _REV. JOHN OWEN_, _A.M._ LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND RECTOR OF PAGLESHAM, ESSEX. * * * * * VELUTI IN SPECULUM. _THE STAGE_. * * * * * Eighth Edition. * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED FOR L. B. SEELEY, FLEET STREET. 1817. * * * * * TO THE RIGHT REVEREND BEILBY PORTEUS, D.D. _LORD BISHOP OF LONDON_, NOT MORE DISTINGUISHED BY HIS ELOQUENCE AS A PREACHER, HIS VIGILANCE AS A PRELATE, HIS SANCTITY AS A CHRISTIAN, AND HIS VARIOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS A SCHOLAR AND A MAN, THAN BY HIS INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS TO DETECT THE ERRORS, REBUKE THE FOLLIES, AND REFORM THE VICES, OF THE FASHIONABLE WORLD, THE FOLLOWING ATTEMPT TO BENEFIT THAT PART OF SOCIETY, BY MEANS TOO FREQUENTLY EMPLOYED TO CORRUPT IT, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S FAITHFUL AND DUTIFUL SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. _Fulham_. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE _EIGHTH EDITION_.