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