A lawyer, a student, or else a country clown:

A broom-man, a basket-maker, or a baker of pies,

A flesh or a fishmonger, or a sower of lies?

A louse or a louser, a leek or a lark,

A dreamer, a drumble,[168] a fire or a spark?

A caitiff, a cutthroat, a creeper in corners,

A hairbrain, a hangman, or a grafter of horners?

By the gods, I know not how best to devise,

My name or my property well to disguise.

A merchant, a May-pole, a man or a mackerel,