For these occasions forth his knowledge sprung,

As mustard quickens on a bed of dung:

All was prepared, and guests allow’d the praise

For what they saw he could so quickly raise.

Such this new friend; and when the year came round,

The same impressive, reasoning sage was found:

Then, too, was seen the pleasant mansion graced

With a fair damsel - his no vulgar taste;

The neat Rebecca - sly, observant, still,

Watching his eye, and waiting on his will;