As a companion socially he was highly endowed was kind generous, mirth loving and at times even convivial. He was partial to a well supplied table and he did not always refuse the wine that "maketh glad the heart". For amusement he would sometimes wrestle with a friend, or oftener would test strength with others by sitting on the floor with feet together and stick grasped between them, but he found never his match. Jokes, rebuses, matching couplets in rhymes etc. was not uncommon.