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CANTO II.] And most perfidiously condemn Those that engag'd their lives for them? And yet do nothing in their own sense But what they ought by oath and conscience. Can they not juggle, and with slight Conveyance play with wrong and right; And sell their blasts of wind as dear, As Lapland witches bottled air? Will not fear, favour, bribe, and grudge, The same case sev'ral ways adjudge? As seamen, with the self-same gale, Will sev'ral different courses sail; As when the sea breaks o'er its bounds, And overflows the level grounds, Those banks and dams, that, like a screen, Did keep it out, now keep it in; So when tyrannical usurpation Invades the freedom of a nation, The laws o' th' land that were intended To keep it out, are made defend it. Does not in Chanc'ry ev'ry man swear What makes best for him in his answer?