If you wish to succeed as a jester, you’ll need
To consider each person’s auricular:
What is all right for B. would quite scandalize C.
(For C. is so very particular);
And D. may be dull, and E.’s very thick skull
Is as empty of brains as a ladle;
While F. is F sharp, and will cry with a carp,
That he’s known your best joke from his cradle!
When your humour they flout,
You can’t let yourself go;