Blest madman, who could every hour employ

With something new to wish or to enjoy,

Railing, and praising, were his usual themes;

And both, to show his judgment, in extremes:

So over-violent, or over-civil,

That every man with him was god or devil.

In squandering wealth was his peculiar art;

Nothing went unrewarded but desert.

Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late,

He had his jest and they had his estate.