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36 For certainly there's no such word In all the Scripture on record: Therefore unlawful, and a sin; And so is, secondly, the thing: A vile assembly 'tis, that can No more be proved by Scripture, than Provincial, Classic, National; Mere human creature-cobwebs all. Thirdly, it is idolatrous; For when men run a-whoring thus With their inventions, whatsoe'er The thing be, whether dog or bear, It is idolatrous and pagan, No less than worshipping of Dagon.
 * Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;

Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate: For though the thesis which thou lay'st Be true, ad amussim, as thou say'st; For that bear-baiting should appear, Jure divino, lawfuller Than synods are, thou dost deny Totidem verbis; so do I: Yet there's a fallacy in this; For if by sly homœosis, Thou wouldst sophistically imply Both are unlawful, I deny.
 * And I, quoth Ralpho, do not doubt

But bear-baiting may be made out, In gospel-times, as lawful as is Provincial, or parochial Classis;