Although we know not him, we cannot stray.
"That's true, egad: Well said, White.—You see her adversary has nothing to say for herself; and, therefore, to confirm the victory, she shall make a simile.
Smith. Why, then, I find similes are as good after victory, as after a surprize.
Bayes. Every jot, egad; or rather better. Well, she can do it two ways; either about emission or reception of light, or else about Epsom waters: But I think the last is most familiar; therefore speak, my pretty one. [Reads.]
As though 'tis controverted in the school,
If waters pass by urine, or by stool;
Shall we, who are philosophers, thence gather,
From this dissention, that they work by neither?
"And, egad, she's in the right on't; but, mind now, she comes upon her scoop. [Reads.]
All this I did, your arguments to try.