If any can believe that this was his meaning, I shall justify his Latin, but must leave it to him to prove its sense. If he intended no more, why did he go about to defend the other meaning, and never meddle with this? Which yet might have been proved by this one example of mine? May not, therefore, his own saying be justly retorted upon him in this case, _Adducis malleum, ut occidas muscam_? Another exception is, _Falsæ sunt, et multa istiusmodi_ (_propositiones_). I wish the Doctor could bring so good parallels, and so many, out of any author, for his _Adducis malleum_, as Tully affords in this case. Take one for all, out of the beginning of his _Paradoxes_: _Animadverti sæpe Catonem, cum in senatu sententiam diceret, Locos graves ex Philosophia tractare, abhorrentes ab hoc usu forensi, et publico, sed dicendo consequi tamen, ut illa etiam populo probabilia viderentur_. This is but a _Solæcophanes_, and hath many precedents more, as in the second book of his _Academical Questions_, &c. I cannot now stay upon each particular passage; I do not see any necessity of tracing the Doctor in all his vagaries. Now, he disallows _tanquam diceremus_, _as if we should say_. But why is that less tolerable than _tanquam feceris_, _as if you had done_? “It should be _quasi_, (forsooth!) or _ac si_, or _tanquam si_, which is Tully’s own word.” What is _tanquam si_ become but one word? _Tanquam si tua res agatur_, &c. Good Doctor, leave out Tully and all _Ciceronians_, or you will for ever suffer for this, and your _Adducis malleum_. Is not this to put yourself on their verdict when you oppose Mr. Hobbes with Tully? But the Doctor gives his reason. And though he hath had the luck in his _Adducis malleum_, to follow the first part of that saying, _Loquendum cum vulgo_, yet now it is, _sentiendum cum sapientibus_. For _tanquam_ without _si_ signifies but _as_, not _as if_. It is pity the Doctor could not argue in symbols too, that so we might not understand him; but suppose all his papers to carry evidence with them, because they are _mathematically_ scratched. How does he construe this:-- “Plance tumes alto Drusorum sanguine, tanquam Feceris ipse aliquid, propter quod nobilis esses.” So Cœlius, one much esteemed by Cicero, who hath inserted his Epistles into his works, saith, in his fifth Epistle (Tul. Epist. Fam. lib. viii. ep. 5), _Omnia desiderantur ab eo tanquam nihil denegatum sit ei quo minus paratissimus esset qui publico negotio præpositus est_. But it was not possible the Doctor should know this, it not being in Stephen, where his examples for _tanquam si_ are.