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Clo.
O sir, we quarrel in print, by the booke: as you
haue bookes for good manners: I will name you the de
grees. The first, the Retort courteous: the second, the
Quip‑modest: the third, the reply Churlish: the fourth,
the Reproofe valiant: the fift, the Counterchecke quar
relsome: the sixt, the Lye with circumstance: the sea
uenth, the Lye direct: all these you may auoyd, but the
Lye direct: and you may auoide that too, with an If. I
knew when seuen Iustices could not take vp a Quarrell,
but when the parties were met themselues, one of them
thought but of an If; as if you saide so, then I saide so:
and they shooke hands, and swore brothers. Your If, is