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But, if that common principle be true,
The Cannon, Dame, is level'd full at you.
But, shunning long disputes, I fain wou'd see
That wond'rous Wight infallibility.
Is he from Heav'n this mighty Champion come,
Or lodg'd below in subterranean Rome?
First, seat him somewhere, and derive his Race,
Or else conclude that nothing has no place.

 Suppose (though I disown it) said the Hind,
The certain Mansion were not yet assign'd,
The doubtful residence no proof can bring
Against the plain existence of the thing.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Because Philosophers may disagree,
If Sight b'emission or reception be,
Shall it be thence infer'd, I do not see?
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$But you require an Answer positive,
Which yet, when I demand, you dare not give,
For Fallacies in Universals live.