This makes your actors, artists, and romancers,

Heroes sometimes, though seldom—sages never:

But speakers, bards, diplomatists, and dancers,

Little that's great, but much of what is clever;

Most orators, but very few financiers,

Though all Exchequer Chancellors endeavour,

Of late years, to dispense with Cocker's rigours,[804]And grow quite figurative with their figures.