His hair is straight, but his whiskers curl;

His lordship’s forehead is far from wide,

But there’s plenty of room for the brains inside.

He writes his name with indifferent ease;

He’s rather uncertain about the “d’s”;

But what does it matter, if three or one,

To the Earl of Fitzdotterel’s eldest son?

My Lord Tomnoddy to college went;

Much time he lost, much money he spent;

Rules, and windows, and heads, he broke;