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['We are entitled to use courteous or discourteous language, / according as we think the public interest requires it. ' -- Lord / HUGH CECIL.]
When rivals in the Party fray, / Their sluggish blood unwarmed, / An old-world courtesy display / ('My honourable friend,' they say, / 'Is surely misinformed? ') / Such feeble methods I despise, / My principles are higher; / Opponents I apostrophise / With piercing and persistent cries / Of 'Renegade! ' or 'Liar! ' / For I can hear, above the din, / A voice within my breast / That bids me use such language, in / The public interest.