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Wilkes's Tergiversation
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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.
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