“Backbite, v. t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more difficile
Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.”
Canto I, line 51
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
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