Some only fit for Ledger-keeping Clerk,

And some to grub down Peter Stubbs his mark,

Or smudge through some illegible receipt;

Others in florid caligraphic plans,

Equal to Ships, and wiggy Heads, and Swans!

V.

To try in any common inkstands, then,

With all their miscellaneous stocks,

To find a decent pen,

Was like a dip into a lucky box: