Epilogue To "the Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter;" By Sir George Etherege, 1676 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK LLGGMMNNOPMMMM| Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown | A |
| They seem not of Heaven's making but their own | A |
| Those nauseous harlequins in farce may pass | B |
| But there goes more to a substantial ass | B |
| Something of man must be exposed to view | C |
| That gallants they may more resemble you | C |
| Sir Fopling is a fool so nicely writ | D |
| The ladies would mistake him for a wit | D |
| And when he sings talks loud and cocks would cry | E |
| I vow methinks he's pretty company | F |
| So brisk so gay so travell'd so refined | G |
| As he took pains to graff upon his kind | G |
| True fops help nature's work and go to school | H |
| To file and finish God Almighty's fool | H |
| Yet none Sir Fopling him or him can call | I |
| He's knight o' the shire and represents ye all | I |
| From each he meets he culls whate'er he can | J |
| Legion's his name a people in a man | J |
| His bulky folly gathers as it goes | K |
| And rolling o'er you like a snow ball grows | K |
| His various modes from various fathers follow | L |
| One taught the toss and one the new French wallow | L |
| His sword knot this his cravat that design'd | G |
| And this the yard long snake he twirls behind | G |
| From one the sacred periwig he gain'd | M |
| Which wind ne'er blew nor touch of hat profaned | M |
| Another's diving bow he did adore | N |
| Which with a shog casts all the hair before | N |
| Till he with full decorum brings it back | O |
| And rises with a water spaniel shake | P |
| As for his songs the ladies' dear delight | M |
| These sure he took from most of you who write | M |
| Yet every man is safe from what he fear'd | M |
| For no one fool is hunted from the herd | M |
John Dryden
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