XLIII.

And yet the British "Damme"'s rather Attic, Your continental oaths are but incontinent, And turn on things which no aristocratic Spirit would name, and therefore even I won't anent[581] This subject quote; as it would be schismatic In _politesse_, and have a sound affronting in 't;-- But "Damme"'s quite ethereal, though too daring-- Platonic blasphemy--the soul of swearing.[kt]