And there's a lust in man no charm can tame

Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;

On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,

While virtuous actions are but born and die.

Stephen Harvey (circa 1627): Juvenal, Satire ix.

At your age

The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

New Testament: James iii. 8.

And as an ev'ning dragon came,

Assailant on the perched roosts

And nests in order rang'd

Of tame villatic fowl.

John Milton (1608-1674): Samson Agonistes. Line 1692.