tongue-combat

Updated: May 13, 2025

Nor is any divertisement more pleasant, than when they meet to flatter and curry one another; yet they are so critical, that if any one hap to be guilty of the least slip, or seeming blunder, another shall presendy correct him for it, and then to it they go in a tongue-combat, with all the fervour, spleen, and eagerness imaginable.

Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly: Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts