There was Dick Dubious,[690] the metaphysician,

Who loved philosophy and a good dinner;

Angle, the soi-disant mathematician;

Sir Henry Silvercup, the great race-winner.

There was the Reverend Rodomont Precisian,

Who did not hate so much the sin as sinner:

And Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet,

Good at all things, but better at a bet.