But Lancaster had motives yet more prevailing; Falstaff was a Favourite, without the power which belongs to that character; and the tone of the Court was strongly against him, as the misleader and Corrupter of the Prince; who was now at too great a distance to afford him immediate countenance and protection.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
And that it is true, that his other vertues would not have suffic'd him, we may consider in Scipio, the rarest man not only in the dayes he liv'd, but even in the memory of man; from whom his army rebel'd in Spain: which grew only upon his too much clemency, which had given way to his soldiers to become more licentious, than was well tollerable by military discipline: for which he was reprov'd by Fabius Maximus in the Senate, who termed him the Corrupter of the Roman soldiery.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
Cicero described him as "a Corrupter of youth," and no one has denied it.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis