Palladas, trans. by R. Garnett.
E as often repent the good we have done as the ill.
W. Hazlitt, Characteristics.
HE speech of Old England for me;
It serves us on every occasion;
Henceforth, like our soil, let it be
Exempted from foreign invasion.
It answers for friendship and love,
For all sorts of feeling and thinking,
And lastly, all doubt to remove—
It answers for singing and drinking.
Lord Neaves, Songs and Verses.
COMPLIMENT is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.