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CANTO III.] Shall make all tailors yards of one Unanimous opinion: A thing he long has vapour'd of, But now shall make it out by proof. Quoth Sidrophel, I do not doubt To find friends that will bear me out: Nor have I hazarded my art, And neck, so long on the State's part, To be expos'd i' th' end to suffer By such a braggadocio huffer. Huffer! quoth Hudibras, this sword Shall down thy false throat cram that word. Ralpho, make haste, and call an officer, To apprehend this Stygian sophister; Meanwhile I'll hold 'em at a bay. Lest he and Whachum run away.