His Worship now read Burn, and talk’d with skill
About the poor-house, and the turnpike-bill;
Lord of a manor, he had serious claims,
And knew the poaching rascals by their names.
And, if the father thus improved his mind,
Be sure the children were not far behind:
To rank and riches what respect was due,
To them and theirs what deference, well they knew, 150
And, from the greatest to the least, could show
What to the favouring few the favour’d many owe.