If, for instance, upon sitting down to a load dinner plate, one says, this looks like a good bite he is actually stating less than the truth. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when the unlucky Mercutio has received a feel rapier wound and is asked if he is hurt, he replies, Ay, ay,a scratch,a scratch: marry, tis enough ,and a moment later , he says no tis not so deep as s well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'twill serve.