ANSWER, BY MR. F----R

In rigging he's rich, though in pocket he's poor,

He cringes to courtiers, and cocks to the cits;

Like twenty he dresses, but looks like threescore;

He's a wit to the fools, and a fool to the wits.

Of wisdom he's empty, but full of conceit;

He paints and perfumes while he rots with the scab;

'Tis a beau you may swear by his sense and his gait;

He boasts of a beauty and lies with a drab.

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