Content with such a little hole?”—

“I wish,” says he, “with all my soul

That this same little house I build

Was with true friends completely fill’d.”

[IX.] OF DOUBT AND CREDULITY.

’Tis frequently of bad event

To give or to withhold assent.

Two cases will th’ affair explain—

The good Hippolytus was slain;

In that his stepdame credit found,