And many liked it; invitations went
To Captain Elliot, and from him were sent—
These last so often, that his friends confess’d,
The Captain’s cook had not a place of rest.
Still were they something at a loss to guess 90
What his profession was from his address;
For much he knew, and too correct was he
For a man train’d and nurtured on the sea;
Yet well he knew the seaman’s words and ways—
Seaman’s his look, and nautical his phrase: