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SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL

THE COBBLER’S BOY WHO BECAME AN ADMIRAL.

“Honor and shame from no condition rise;

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Fortune in men has some small difference made,

One flaunts in rags, one nutters in brocade;

The cobbler aproned and the parson gowned,

The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.

“What differ more’ (you cry) ‘than crown and cowl?’

I’ll tell you, friend,—a wise man and a fool.

You’ll find, if once the monarch acts the monk,

Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk;

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;

The rest is all but leather or prunella.”

—Pope, Essay on Man.