“His acting’s great—that I can tell ye;
For all the acting’s in his belly.”
Critic.—
“But, with due def’rence to your joke,
A truer word I never spoke
Than when I say—you’ve never been
The witness of a finer scene.
Th’ admir’d actor whom you see
Plays the fat knight most charmingly:
’Tis in this part he doth excel;