Converted foes should scorn to join with those.

XIII.

This were the worst desertion:—renegadoes,

Even shuffling Southey, that incarnate lie,[JX]

Would scarcely join again the "reformadoes,"[530]

Whom he forsook to fill the Laureate's sty;

And honest men from Iceland to Barbadoes,

Whether in Caledon or Italy,

Should not veer round with every breath, nor seize

To pain, the moment when you cease to please.