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THE TRIUMPHS
With such respect, but unchastis'd by fear,
Sir Gilbert and the nymph first met the peer;
And, while his morning compliments commence,
The slighted breakfast stands in cold suspense.
But far unlike to Hector's ruder grace
His modern stature, and his modish face;
Nor less he differs from those barons old,
Whose arms are blazon'd on his car of gold;
Whose prostrate castle guarded once the lands,
Where, spruce in motley pride, his villa stands,
By taste erected, in her trimmest mode,
Her mushroom structure, and her quaint abode.
As the neat daisy to the sun's broad flower,
As the French boudoir to the Gothic tower,
Such is the peer, whom fashion much admires,
Compar'd in person to his ancient fires:
For their broad shoulder, and their brawny calf,
Their coarse, loud language, and their coarser laugh,
His finer form, more elegantly slim,
Displays the fashionable length of limb:
Sir Gilbert and the nymph first met the peer;
And, while his morning compliments commence,
The slighted breakfast stands in cold suspense.
But far unlike to Hector's ruder grace
His modern stature, and his modish face;
Nor less he differs from those barons old,
Whose arms are blazon'd on his car of gold;
Whose prostrate castle guarded once the lands,
Where, spruce in motley pride, his villa stands,
By taste erected, in her trimmest mode,
Her mushroom structure, and her quaint abode.
As the neat daisy to the sun's broad flower,
As the French boudoir to the Gothic tower,
Such is the peer, whom fashion much admires,
Compar'd in person to his ancient fires:
For their broad shoulder, and their brawny calf,
Their coarse, loud language, and their coarser laugh,
His finer form, more elegantly slim,
Displays the fashionable length of limb:
