And how oft did you say his beard was not well
cut?

I durst go no further than the lie circumstantial,
nor he durst not give me the lie direct; and so we measured
swords, and parted.

Can you nominate in order, now, the degrees of
the lie?

O, Sir, we quarrel in print by the book; as
you have books for good manners, I will name you the degrees.”