Wilkes's Tergiversation
WILKES, one day in his later life, went to Court, when George III. asked
him, in a good-natured tone of banter, how his friend Serjeant Glynn
was. Glynn had been one of his most furious partisans. Wilkes replied,
with affected gravity, Nay, sire, don't call Serjeant Glynn a friend of
mine; the fellow was a Wilkite, which your Majesty knows I never
was.