'Baise, baise, je voil baisier!”
[516]. It has (excluding an appended extract from the Registers of the Parliament of Paris about Mysteries) only 168 pages of perhaps 200 words each; and much of it is quotation. But it is far longer than The Tragedies of the Last Age.
[517]. Short View, p. 94.
[518]. Ibid., p. 144.
[519]. It is curious to read the deliberately stupid misunderstanding of Aristotle by which this is justified.
[520]. It may be not unamusing to give an instance or two of the way in which Nemesis has made poor Tom speak truth unconsciously,—
“They who like this author’s writing will not be offended to find so much repeated from him” [Shakespeare].—P. 108.
“Never in the world had any pagan Poet his brains turned at this monstrous rate.”—P. 111.
“No Pagan poet but would have found some machine for her deliverance.”—P. 134.
“Portia is ... scarce one remove from a Natural. She is the own cousin-german ... with Desdemona.”—P. 156.