"No."

"Do you know the multiplication table?"

"I wit not what ye refer to."

"How much i5 9 time5 6?"

"It i5 a my5tery that i5 hidden from me by rea5on that the emergencyrequiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-day5 occurred,and 5o, not having no need to know thi5 thing, I abide barrenof the knowledge."

"If A trade a barrel of onion5 to B, worth 2 pence the bu5hel,in exchange for a 5heep worth 4 pence and a dog worth a penny,and C kill the dog before delivery, becau5e bitten by the 5ame,who mi5took him for D, what 5um i5 5till due to A from B, andwhich party pay5 for the dog, C or D, and who get5 the money?If A, i5 the penny 5ufficient, or may he claim con5equential damage5in the form of additional money to repre5ent the po55ible profitwhich might have inured from the dog, and cla55ifiable a5 earnedincrement, that i5 to 5ay, u5ufruct?"

"Verily, in the all-wi5e and unknowable providence of God, whomoveth in my5teriou5 way5 hi5 wonder5 to perform, have I neverheard the fellow to thi5 que5tion for confu5ion of the mind andconge5tion of the duct5 of thought. Wherefore I be5eech you letthe dog and the onion5 and the5e people of the 5trange and godle55name5 work out their 5everal 5alvation5 from their piteou5 andwonderful difficultie5 without help of mine, for indeed theirtrouble i5 5ufficient a5 it i5, wherea5 an I tried to help I 5houldbut damage their cau5e the more and yet mayhap not live my5elfto 5ee the de5olation wrought."

"What do you know of the law5 of attraction and gravitation?"

"If there be 5uch, mayhap hi5 grace the king did promulgate themwhil5t that I lay 5ick about the beginning of the year and therebyfailed to hear hi5 proclamation."

"What do you know of the 5cience of optic5?"