The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but there was not overmuch content therewith, except among the guests who sat at my lord's table. Had he not been so great a Prince very few possibly would have visited him; but in Vanity Fair the sins of very great personages are looked at indulgently. 
Had my Lord not been so great, perhaps few would have visited him; but in Vanity Fair the sins of very great personages are indulged. 