Fielding.—The Life of Jonathan Wild, Book IV. Chap. II.
I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging cozening slave,
to get some office,
Have not devis’d this slander.
Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene 2. (Emilia to Desdemona.)
Thou wrong’st a gentleman, who is as far from thy report as thou from honour.
Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 7. (Imogen to Iachimo.)
He’s gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
Milton.—Samson Agonistes.
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Fielding.—The Temple Beau, Act I. Scene 1.
SLANDER.—Where it concerns himself,
Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
Ben Jonson.—Catiline, Act III. Scene 1.