The giddy scamper round and round,

With leap, and jerk, and high curvet,

And many a whirling somerset,

(Permitted be the modern muse

Expression technical to use,)

These mock the deftest rhymer’s skill,

But poor in art, tho’ rich in will.

The featest tumbler, stage-bedight,

To thee is but a clumsy wight,

Who every limb and sinew strains,