• From “The Contrivances”

    GENTEEL in personage,
    Conduct, and equipage,
    Noble by heritage,
      Generous and free:
    Brave, not romantic;
    Learned, not pedantic;
    Frolic, not frantic;
      This must he be.
    Honor maintaining,
    Meanness disdaining,
    Still entertaining.
      Engaging and new.
    Neat, but not...