I am an old fellow, and extremely troubled with the gout; but having always a strong vanity towards being pleasing in the eyes of women, I never have a moment's ease, but I am mounted in high-heeled shoes, with a glazed wax-leather instep.

Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,

He was practically uneducated, barely able to read and write a simple sentence.

Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity.