It hap’d a gentle youth—a lordly heir
To vast domains—did annually repair
Unto this country-mansion, to renew
His pleasant visits to his uncle Prew:
The fair-hair’d stripling proved a welcome guest,
For there was something in his generous breast
Which won for him the universal mark
(From Bishop Butler,[164] to the parish-clerk,)
Of friendship—nay, the love of one and all:
The village-matrons, all were wont to call