The rate of pay was as high as the work was worth, and as much as it would fetch in the open market.

The large sum was entirely due to Pope's reputation, though obtained, so far as the true authorship was concealed, upon something like false pretences.
Still, we could have wished that he had been a little more liberal with his share of the plunder.

A coolness ensued between the principal and his partners in consequence of these questionable dealings.

Fenton seems never to have been reconciled to Pope, though they did not openly quarrel and Pope wrote a laudatory epitaph for him on his death in 1730.
Broome--a weaker man--though insulted by Pope in the _Dunciad_ and the Miscellanies, accepted a reconciliation, for which Pope seems to have been eager, perhaps feeling some touch of remorse for the injuries which he had inflicted.
The shares of the three colleagues in the Odyssey are not to be easily distinguished by internal evidence.

On trying the experiment by a cursory reading I confess (though a critic does not willingly admit his fallibility) that I took some of Broome's work for Pope's, and, though closer study or an acuter perception might discriminate more accurately, I do not think that the distinction would be easy.