----From infancy They have convers’d, and spent their hours together; And though the one hath been an idle truant, Omitting the sweet benefit of time; ----Yet hath the other Made use and fair advantage of his days. His years are young, but his experience old; His head unmellow’d, but his judgment ripe; He is complete in feature and in mind, With all good grace, to grace a gentleman. “And bring wax candles,” said the tallest and apparently the youngest of the two travellers, who had just alighted from that almost obsolete mode of conveyance, a hack post-chaise, at the door of a small but celebrated country inn, on one of the great posting roads of England.…
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