Foils, boxing-gloves, and pistols,

Which he us’d with friends and foes:

’Twas there “the squire” took his wine

And cigar whene’er he chose;

Perusing the Court Journal,

Or Blackwood’s tedious prose.

Like a fine, &c.

He was, when merry winter came,

The gayest of them all;

At five-and-twenty he was seen