But exactly in proportion to his lofty estimate of law, when thus enforced and applied, he is indignant and jealous at any attempt to wrest or misenforce it:

Thou com’st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee.

The Secretary and the Assistant-Secretaries would say little caustic things about him to the senior clerks, and seemed somewhat to begrudge him his new honours.

Then round our Death-bed ev'ry Friend ſhou'd run, / And joy us of our Conqueſt, early won: […]