Neque negativis,
Recte concludere si vis]
“Nullus syllogismus categoricus communis, vel ex solis particularibus, vel ex solis negativis constare potest. Hanc [regulam] expresse tradit Aristoteles libro primo Prior. capite 24. numero primo. Hinc metrum hoc natum:
Ex particulari non est syllogizari,
Neque negativis, recte concludere si vis.”
Crakanthorp’s Logicæ Libri Quinque, 1622. p. 279.
v. 107. Your hertes than were hosed] i. e. Your hearts were in your hose (breeches): so again our author in his Why come ye nat to Courte;
“Their hertes be in thyr hose.”
v. 286. vol. ii. 35.
See too Ray’s Proverbs, (Scottish), p. 292. ed. 1768.