Yes; if well brib'd, for virtue's self they fight;

Still in the wrong, tho' champions for the right:

Whoe'er their crimes for interest only quit,

Sin on in virtue, and good deeds commit.

Nought but inconstancy Britannia meets,

And broken faith in their abandon'd sheets;

From the same hand how various is the page!

What civil war their brother pamphlets wage!

Tracts battle tracts, self-contradictions glare;

Say, is this lunacy?—I wish it were.