But if I had been at Timbuctoo, there

No doubt I should be told that black is fair.[LT][640]

LXXI.

It is. I will not swear that black is white,

But I suspect in fact that white is black,

And the whole matter rests upon eye-sight:—

Ask a blind man, the best judge. You'll attack

Perhaps this new position—but I'm right;

Or if I'm wrong, I'll not be ta'en aback:—