Social Commentaries

Logicians

by Samuel Butler 1613–1680

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language (ed. James Parton)

Social Commentaries

Logicians used to clap a proposition,
As justices do criminals, in prison,
And, in as learn'd authentic nonsense, writ
The names of all their moods and figures fit;
For a logician's one that has been broke
To ride and pace his reason by the book;
And by their rules, and precepts, and examples,
To put his wits into a kind of trammels.

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