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: