"But I confess I like the Germans no more than you do.

Yet there are exceptions.

Pepusch has made his home here--his country turned him out--and there's clever Mr.Handel.The English know more about his music than do his countrymen.

I would love to see you, Polly, applauded in the Duke's Theatre as heartily as was Mr.Handel's opera 'Rinaldo' at the King's." Something significant in Gay's voice and face sent the blood rushing to Lavinia's cheeks.
"I applauded!--I at the Duke's! Oh, that will never be." "May be not--may be not.

But one never knows.