... Now, first and foremost, learn to bend your back!—

Be Veneration’s self personified.

Dress ill; your clothes should fit you like a sack,

And always take some big-wig for your guide.

The cowl does make the monk in such a case,

And the wall’s valued by its plaster face....

Get introduced, and every blessed night

Visit some lout they’ve made a minister.

There choose your time, and change your stops aright,

According as his tastes or whims prefer.