"But that you may not imagine I disapprove of satirical impromptus in the Lucilian vein, I will myself throw my notions on this matter into verse: "He that would be an orator, must strive To follow out the discipline of old, And heed the laws of stern frugality; Not his to haunt the Court with fawning brow, Nor sit a flatterer at great folks' boards; Not his with boon companions o'er the wine To overcloud his brain, nor at the play To sit and clap, agape at actors' tricks.