Beshrew the cynic would-be wit.

Why, sir, the true cynic is a father to all men; all men are his sons and all women his daughters; he has a bond of union, a lien of affection with them all."

Mr. Mussey put up a stiffer fight than Mr. Swain, since an avowed cynic is necessarily a Man Who Knows About Women.

So Fletcher wrote, and in the same mood the arch-cynic of a later age exclaimed: ev'ry Woman is at heart a Rake!

[Footnote 73: Mr. Landor, with whom the Cynic is a singular favourite, says, p. 461, vol.

For in fact a Cynic is a spy of the things which are good for men and which are evil, and it is his duty to examine carefully and to come and report truly, and not to be struck with terror so as to point out as enemies those who are not enemies, nor in any other way to be perturbed by appearances nor confounded.