“Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days,

Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise:

Born with whate’er could win it from the wise,

Women and fools must like him or he dies;

Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke,

The club must hail him master of the joke.

Shall parts so various aim at nothing new?

He’ll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too,

Then turn repentant, and his God adores

With the same spirit that he drinks and w——;