I will lay an even wager that he is a miscreant apostate.

By the belly of a stalled ox, how careful he is not to be mistaken in his words.

He answered but by disjunctives, therefore can it not be true which he saith; for the verity of such-like propositions is inherent only in one of its two members.

O the cozening prattler that he is! I wonder if Santiago of Bressure be one of these cogging shirks.

Such was of old, quoth Epistemon, the custom of the grand vaticinator and prophet Tiresias, who used always, by way of a preface, to say openly and plainly at the beginning of his divinations and predictions that what he was to tell would either come to pass or not.