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CANTO III.] Pythagoras, old Zoroaster, And Apollonius their master, To whom they do confess they owe All that they do, and all they know. Quoth Hudibras,—Alas, what is't t' us Whether 'twere said by Trismegistus, If it be nonsense, false, or mystick, Or not intelligible, or sophistick? 'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes Truth truth, altho' Time's daughter; 'Twas he that put her in the pit, Before he pull'd her out of it;