"Now, arise and go!
Both have done homage to Euripides!"
Silence pursued the words: till he broke out—
"Scarce so! This constitutes, I may believe,
Sufficient homage done by who defames
Your poet's foe, since you account me such;
But homage-proper,—pay it by defence
Of him, direct defence and not oblique,
Not by mere mild admonishment of me!"
"Defence? The best, the only!" I replied.