He would not retreat before calumny, as if he submitted to it.
Lydgate would understand that if his friends hear a calumny about him their first wish must be to justify him.
He must make himself proof against calumny.
Strype the washerwoman against Stubbs's unjust exaction on the score of her drying-ground, and he would himself scrutinize a calumny against Mrs.
Act uprightly, and despise calumny; dirt may stick to a mud wall, but not to polished marble.
