The power of pleasing, and the will to please.

Our John was pleas’d—such offers don’t offend,

A sumptuous Table, with a lively Friend.

All this arranged, John thought it right he now

Should on the General[33] wait, and make his Bow;

A Guardsman too, and strictly to his tether,

Adhered to the Old adage, ‘Birds of a Feather,’

John, as a Guardsman soon had his entré,

Greeted, and closeted without delay.