THE COBBLER’S BOY WHO BECAME AN ADMIRAL.
“Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Fortune in men has some small difference made,
One flaunts in rags, one nutters in brocade;
The cobbler aproned and the parson gowned,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
“What differ more’ (you cry) ‘than crown and cowl?’
I’ll tell you, friend,—a wise man and a fool.