By grief assumed, scorn hid, and flattery veil’d.

P. But has he, safe and cautious, shunn’d the snares

That life presents?—I ask not of its cares.

F. Your gentle Boy a course of life began

That made him, what he is, the gentle-man,

A man of business. He in courts presides

Among their Worships, whom his judgment guides. 70

He in the Temple studied, and came down

A very lawyer, though without a gown;

Still he is kind, but prudent, steady, just,