Or is’t a tart idea, to procure
An edge, and keep the practic soul in ure,
Like that dear Chymic dust, or puzzling quadrature?
—Quarles, Philip.
Quoted by De Morgan: Budget of Paradoxes (London, 1872), p. 436.
Quale è’l geometra che tutto s’ affige
Per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritruova,