Is this malapert boy to be trusted, or not?" "It were difficult to say, sir," Harry answered.

But of all those astrological aphorisms which I have ever read, that of Cardan is most memorable, for which howsoever he is bitterly censured by Marinus Marcennus, a malapert friar, and some others (which he himself suspected) yet methinks it is free, downright, plain and ingenious.