They too for Gain would follow him to Rome , This Passively Obedient thing will go as They’d have it, or to Mecca , Rome , or Troas ; All one to it, if forward Hawl’d or back, ’Twill run a Holy Stage for Will or Jack ; And truckle to and fro’ ’twixt Cause and Cause, Just as Strongest Pull of Interest draws.
— from Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723. by Lucy Phillimore
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