And what said the duchess of _Suffolk_ to it? said my uncle _Toby_.
The unexpectedness of my uncle _Toby's_ question, confounded _Kysarcius_ more than the ablest advocate ----He stopp'd a full minute, looking in my uncle _Toby's_ face without replying----and in that single minute _Triptolemus_ put by him, and took the lead as follows.
'Tis a ground and principle in the law, said _Triptolemus_, that things do not ascend, but descend in it; and I make no doubt 'tis for this cause, that however true it is, that the child may be of the blood and seed of its parents----that the parents, nevertheless, are not of the blood and seed of it; inasmuch as the parents are not begot by the child, but the child by the parents --For so they write, _Liberi sunt de sanguine patris & matris, sed pater & mater non sunt de sanguine liberorum_.

'And what said the duchess of Suffolk to it?' said my uncle Toby.
The unexpectedness of my uncle's question confounded Kysarcius. He paused, and Triptolemus took over.
''Tis a principle in the law,' said Triptolemus, 'that things do not ascend, but descend in it; so that however true it is, that the child is of the blood and seed of its parents - the parents, nevertheless, are not of the blood and seed of the child; for they are not begot by the child.'
