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]