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.