But do you think you can defend your _Adducis Malleum_ as well as I have now defended my ϛιγμὴ? You have brought, I confess, above a hundred places of authors, where there is the word _duco_, or some of its compounds, but none of them will justify _Adducis Malleum_, and, excepting two of those places, you yourself seem to condemn them all, comparing yours with none of the rest but with these two only, both out of Plautus, by you not well understood. The first is in _Casina_, Act. V. Scen. 2, “_Ubi intro hanc novam nuptam deduxi, via recta, clavem abduxi_;” which you, presently presuming of your first thoughts, a peculiar fault to men of your principles, assure yourself is right. But if you look on the place as Scaliger reads it, cited by the commentator, you will find it should be _obduxi_, and that _clavis_ is there used for the bolt of the lock. Besides, he bolted it within. Whither then could he carry away the key? The place is to be rendered thus, _when I had brought in this new bride I presently locked the door_, and is this _as bad every whit_ as _Adducis Malleum_? The second place is in _Amphytruo_, Act. I. Scen. 1, “_Eam_ (cirneam), _ut a matre fuerat natum, plenam vini eduxi meri_,” which you interpret _I brought out a flagon of wine_, unlearnedly. They are the words of Mercury transformed into Sosia. And to try whether Mercury were Sosia or not, Sosia asked him where he was and what he did during the battle; to which Mercury answered, who knew where Sosia then was and what he did, _I was in the cellar, where I filled a cirnea, and brought it up full of wine, pure as it came from its mother_. By the mother of the wine meaning the vine, and alluding to the education of children, for _ebibi_ said _eduxi_, and with an _emphasis_ in _meri_, because _cirnea_ (from Κφνάω, _misceo_) was a vessel wherein they put water to temper to their wine. Intimating that though the vessel was _cirnea_, yet the wine was _merum_. This is the true sense of the place; but you will have _eduxi_ to be, _I brought out_, though he came not out himself. You see, sir, that neither this is so bad as _Adducis Malleum_.