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IS strange how some men's tempers suit, Like bawd and brandy, with dispute, That for their own opinions stand fast. Only to have them claw'd and canvast. That keep their consciences in cases, As fiddlers do their crowds and bases, Ne'er to be us'd but when they're bent To play a fit for argument. Make true and false, unjust and just. Of no use but to be discust; Dispute and set a paradox, Like a straight boot, upon the stocks, And stretch if more unmercifully, Than Helmont, Montaigne, White, or Tully.