His Shooes made of a Mouse’s Skin,
And Tann’d most curiously.
The next Stanza's relate his Diversions, bearing some Analogy to those of Ascanius and other Lads in Virgil:
Thus like a valiant Gallant He
Adventures forth to go,
With other Children in the Street,
His pretty Tricks to show.
Una Acies Juvenum ducit quam Parvus Ovantem
Nomen Avi referens Priamus.
There is a Piece of Revenge our little Hero took upon a Play-fellow, which proves, to what an height Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy was arriv'd to in that Age, and may be worth while to be considered by the Royal Society.