(God with him, tickling his fair brow and sparkling eye)

With wisdom wrote he ’n majesty

On high-born kings and lowly peasantry

In rhyme’s sweet readings; lines of quaint sarcastic prose:

Perhaps offendingly to some; whilst others sigh,

Or laugh, or cry, and timidly

Enjoy the witty man’s bright pleasantry.—

Behold his genius! look ye to the skies;

For like a planet, known by its respective sign,

So was he—good William Shakespeare—