Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out,
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said she's goodly, come between
Ere you can say she's honest.
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Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]
Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of
calumnity, pursued by a faction, may read more
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of
calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity.
This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as read more
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
