forget vs pay tribute to

forget

verb
  • To lose remembrance of. 

  • To unintentionally not do, neglect. 

  • To unintentionally leave something behind. 

  • To cease remembering. 

  • Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath). 

pay tribute to

How often have the words forget and pay tribute to occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )