He was not form’d for over-reaching.

The law—why there still fate ill-starr’d him,

And plainly from the bar debarr’d him:

A doctor—who would ever fee him?

In music he could scarce engage,

And as for going on the stage

In tragic socks I think I see him!

He would not make a rigging-mounter;

A haberdasher had some merit,

But there the counter still ran counter,