But enough of Socrates. Shall we have another match on the old lines? I will give you nothing but first-rate ones. Have your eyes open. You will surely be able to do it now, after hearing such a list of them. _Pur._ I am by no means so sure of that. Proceed, however. _Ly._ Not sure? well, but here you have the door broad open. _Pur._ Say on. _Ly._ I have said. _Pur._ Nothing that I observed. _Ly._ What, not observed 'broad open'? _Pur._ No. _Ly._ Well, what is to happen, if you cannot follow now? Every man can crow on his own hay-cock, and I thought this was yours. Did you get that hay-cock? You don't seem to attend; look at the mutual help Socrates and I have just given you. _Pur._ I am attending; but you are so sly with them. _Ly._ Monstrous sly, is it not, to say 'mutual' instead of 'joint'? Well, that is settled up; but for your general ignorance, I defy any God short of Apollo to cure it. He gives council to all who ask it; but on you that council is thrown away. _Pur._ Yes, I declare, so it was! _Ly._ Perhaps one at a time are too few? _Pur._ I think that must be it. _Ly._ How did 'one are' get past you? _Pur._ Ah, I didn't see it, again. _Ly._ By the way, do you know of any one who is on the look in for a wife? _Pur._ What _are_ you talking about? _Ly._ Show me the man who is on the look in, and I will show you a solecist. _Pur._ But what have I to do with solecists on the look in for wives? _Ly._ Ah, if you knew that, you would be the man you pretend to be. So much for that. Now, if a man came to you and said that he had left his wife's home, would you stand that? _Pur._ Of course I should, if he had provocation. _Ly._ And if you caught him committing a solecism, would you stand it? _Pur._ Certainly not. _Ly._ Quite right too. We should never permit solecisms in a friend, but teach him better. Now, what are your feelings when you hear a man deprecating his own merits, and depreciating his friend's excessive gratitude? _Pur._ Feelings? only that he shows a very proper feeling. _Ly._ Then, as you cannot feel the difference between 'deprecate' and 'depreciate,' shall we conclude that you are an ignoramus? _Pur._ Outrageous insolence! _Ly._ Outrageous? I shall be, ere much, if I go on talking to you.--Now I should have said that 'ere much' was a blunder, but it does not strike you so. _Pur._ Oh, stop, for goodness' sake! Look here, try this way; I want to get _my_ profit out of it too. _Ly._ Well? _Pur._ Suppose you were to go through all the blunders you say I have missed, and tell me what is the right thing for each.