[30] This epigram, though taken from the French, may be traced back to the Latin Anthology:
“Kisses my Phillis takes, but ne’er bestows:
Taking’s all one with giving, Phillis knows.”
[31] There is a similar point in a Greek epigram of Strato:
“While thus a few kisses I steal,
Dear Chloris, you bravely complain;
If resentment you really do feel.
Pray give me my kisses again.”
[32] Mrs. Thomson, in her “Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,” says:
“The proud Duke of Somerset married twice. His second duchess once tapped him familiarly on the shoulder with her fan; he turned round, and, with an indignant countenance, said, ‘My first duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty.’”