He could himself command, and therefore could obey. }

He with the keeper took his daily round, 60

A rival grew, and some unkindness found;

But his superior farm’d! the place was void,

And James guns, dogs, and dignity enjoy’d.

Robert had scorn of service; he would be

A slave to no man—happy were the free,

And only they;—by such opinions led,

Robert to sundry kinds of trade was bred.

Nor let us wonder if he sometimes made