In 1749, he complimented Mr. Garrick in an Ode on his marriage with Madam Violetti ; and about the same period he united himself in the same state with Miss Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Hamilton, table-decker to the princesses.

Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:

[…] men of a more cautious and unadventuring character […]

You listened to what your two schoolfellows were saying about you.