The Panther grinned at this, and thus replied:

That men may err was never yet denied;

But, if that common principle be true,

The canon, dame, is levelled full at you.

But, shunning long disputes, I fain would see

That wonderous wight, Infallibility.

Is he from heaven, this mighty champion, come?

Or lodged below in subterranean Rome?

First, seat him somewhere, and derive his race,

Or else conclude that nothing has no place.—