And him who won the laurels of the day:
He,[178] brave—though young—subdued the blazing fort;
Trusted in God, and—trusting—fought unhurt:
Return’d from war, with the surrender’d sword,
The king endowed him with a rich reward:—
He stoop’d a Baronet, and ’rose a “Lord.”
His country eulogised him, without bounds,
And gave him, also, forty-thousand pounds;
With which Lord William purchas’d the estate,—
The old manorial mansion,—“Rollingate.”