But Arnold’s father felt that it was fraught
With disadvantage, and conceived (he thought)
An efficacious plan: matured the same,
Thus started Arnold on the road to fame.
At Court, Lord William’s influence was used.
(A favor ask’d by him was ne’er refused;
If that, solicited, could granted be,
Granted it was, and ever readily.)
So, for his son, h’ obtain’d a post, at once—
In the legation, at the Court of France.