He makes it clear at the outset to both Georgiana and her mother, Lady Spencer Charlotte Rampling , that it is Georgiana's duty to bear him a male heir in short order.
At Georgiana's suggestion, the Duke invites Bess to live with the Duke and Duchess in Devonshire.
Often his verse sprawls like the trees, dances like the dust, it is top-heavy like the toad-stool.