With bigot zeal to combat for its friends.
Candour,—which loves in see-saw strain to tell
Of acting foolishly, but meaning well;
Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame,
Convinced that all men’s motives are the same;
And finds, with keen discriminating sight,
Black’s not so black;—nor White so very white.
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“Fox, to be sure, was vehement and wrong:
But then, Pitt’s words, you’ll own, were rather strong.