Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great.

Arabic flatteries are of a superior order because sincere at the time being and addressed to girls whom the flatterer desires to marry.

He the chief flatterer nature made!

E'en the right-minded man, in time, To briber and to flatterer yields; The judge, who cannot punish crime, Joins with the culprit whom he shields.