He was supposed to excel in all those supple arts of the courtier which Warwick neglected or despised; and if the last was on great occasions the adviser, the other in ordinary life was the companion of his sovereign.

Warwick owed his popularity to his own large, open, daring, and lavish nature.

The subtler Montagu sought to win, by care and pains, what the other obtained without an effort.

He attended the various holiday meetings of the citizens, where Warwick was rarely seen.

He was smooth-spoken and courteous to his equals, and generally affable, though with constraint, to his inferiors.