Were soon his habits and his manners taught—
His manners easy, civil, kind, and free;
His habits such as aged men’s will be,
To self indulgent; wealthy men like him
Plead for these failings—’tis their way, their whim. 20
His frank good-humour, his untroubled air,
His free address, and language bold but fair,
Soon made him friends—such friends as all may make,
Who take the way that he was pleased to take.
He gave his dinners in a handsome style,