Who wheels round at persuasion of a touch.

Civilization bows to decency,

The acknowledged use and wont: 't is manners—mild

But yet imperative law—which make the man.

Thus do we pay the proper compliment

To rank, and that society of Rome

Hath so obliged us by its interest,

Taken our client's part instinctively,

As unaware defending its own cause.

What dictum doth Society lay down