No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two
Advise the prince, no doubt, an easy tool,
Differential, glad to be of use.
Politic, cautious and meticulous;
Full of high sentence but a bit obtuse;
At times indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool:

— from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T. S. Eliot