Quidquid dicunt, laudo; id rursum si negant, laudo id quoque.
Negat quis, nego; ait, aio. Postremò imperavi egomet mihi
Omnia assentari.
Terent. in Eunuch. [Act II. Sc. 2.]
It has been held in ancient rules,
That flattery is the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to taste a bit.
Swift[, Cadenus and Vanessa.]
Muse of my Spenser, who so well could sing