Note 233 — Part I.—The Roisterers

"Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat. Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate; For though the thesis which thou lay'st Be true ad amussim as thou say'st (For that bear-baiting should appear Jure divino lawfuller Than Synods are, thou do'st deny, Totidem verbis; so do I), Yet there is fallacy in this; For if by sly homœosis, Tussis pro crepitu, an art . . . . . . . . . . . Thou wouldst sophistically imply, Both are unlawful, I deny."

Part I. canto 1. lines 821-834.