For a professor; he designs, he draws,
He paints, he carves, he builds, he fortifies,
Makes citadels of curious fowl and fish.
* * * * * *
He is an architect, an engineer,
A soldier, a physician, a philosopher,
A general mathematician."
6. ['Tis an ill cook,] etc. Cf. Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie, 1589:—
"As the old cocke crowes so doeth the chick: