"Trimmed up your praises with a princely tongue;
Spoke your deserving like a chronicle."
and Harry Hotspur less deserved the praise.
Emperor. "I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity." I can but thank you both! (To the PRINCE.)
"By heavens, I cannot flatter; I defy
The tongues of soothers; but a braver place
In my heart's love hath no man than yourself."
Mr. Punch. That's as it should be. If 'twere not always wholly so—but no matter! I love not to speak in needless or heedless dispraise of dignities, of "Shouting Emperors," or "Madcap Princes," but rather—
"As in reproof of many tales devised,—
Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,—