(How consistency's floored in the struggle for pelf!)
And Jonathan took a most high-handed course;
For greediness mostly falls back on brute force,
When parties go "bouncing" and "boning."
And Johnny the Briton, a sturdy old salt,
Had been a sea-grabber himself in his time;
Some held that monopoly still was his fault,
Others swore that his modesty verged upon crime,
Nor is it quite easy to say which was true,
For so much depends on a man's point of view,