Translations
If it is his pleasure you should act a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person,Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
If it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
if he wishes you to act the part of a poor man, see that you act the part naturally; if the part of a lame man, of a magistrate, of a private person, (do the same).George Long (1890)
If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)