And thus I play'd the tyrant's part:
But from my being thus disjoin'd,
To this same part I was confin'd.
Though by this outfit I must own
I could perform the awkward clown,
Or any other hunch-back fellow,
A Pantaloon, or Punchinello,
Where white and red be-mark'd my face,
And excellence was my disgrace:
For here I shrunk beneath the pack