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 1 Pref  |        that in your head? you’ll say. The first thing was your
 2 Pref  |        kind of mirth, that is to say, neither unlearned, if I
 3 Pref  | altogether foolishly. And now to say somewhat to that other cavil,
 4 Pref  |          to be anyone that shall say he is hit, he will but discover
 5 Praise|        own dear self, that is to say, Folly. Nor do I esteem
 6 Praise|        their praises, that is to say, mere lies; and yet, composing
 7 Praise|         the ingratitude, shall I say, or negligence of men who,
 8 Praise|     hypnos, Dead Sleep. These, I say, are my household servants,
 9 Praise|         then he does, that is to say the getting of children:
10 Praise|           Oh! Do you like what I say? I knew none of you could
11 Praise|        with pleasure, that is to say, folly? For the proof of
12 Praise|        again.~But perhaps you’ll say they are foolish and doting.
13 Praise|    thrown on him? O foolish god, say they, and worthy to be born
14 Praise|         Father Homer, that is to say, without anyone to correct
15 Praise|         putting in, as one would say, “scarce half an ounce to
16 Praise|          woman still, that is to say foolish, let her put on
17 Praise|       But there are some, you’ll say, and those too none of the
18 Praise|      than Venus? What is this, I say, but mere folly? And so,
19 Praise|       very few ’twere a crime to say none. For that the greatest
20 Praise|      very long lived; that is to say, among such as are morose
21 Praise|     himself? I think no one will say it that is not more foolish
22 Praise|          all other her gifts: to say nothing that no great action
23 Praise|      orator.~But counsel, you’ll say, is not of least concern
24 Praise|         their father, that is to say, fools.~However this were
25 Praise|        in this world, and you’ll say this piece of wisdom were
26 Praise|    example of his two whelps? To say nothing of Minos and Numa,
27 Praise|        For what is more foolish, say they, than for a suppliant
28 Praise|          prudence? But some will say, you may as well join fire
29 Praise|       Yet why this? will someone say. Have patience, and I’ll
30 Praise|          this is foolish, you’ll say; nor shall I deny it, provided
31 Praise|          round him, as the poets say Jupiter was now and then
32 Praise|       subject? How miserable, to say no worse, our birth, how
33 Praise|          not steeped in gall? To say nothing of those evils one
34 Praise|        to wisdom? among whom, to say nothing of Diogenes, Xenocrates,
35 Praise|          again, the virtuosi may say that there was particularly
36 Praise|          them demons, that is to say, knowing. For that simple
37 Praise|         common sense, that is to say, folly. Divines are half
38 Praise|       whose profession, though I say it myself, most men laugh
39 Praise|         without offense to do or say what they like. And so little
40 Praise|        friends.~But, someone may say, the ears of princes are
41 Praise|       the Stoics croak at me and say that nothing is more miserable
42 Praise|         prince. Or what should I say of them that hug themselves
43 Praise|      happen too soon, that is to say before the pleasures of
44 Praise|        imitate his life—these, I say, and the like—should this
45 Praise|      pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his
46 Praise|           Unless, perhaps you’ll say, men had better converse
47 Praise|        scrub one another? And to say nothing of it, that it’s
48 Praise|       But ’tis a sad thing, they say, to be mistaken. Nay rather,
49 Praise|     costs them least, that is to say, only some small persuasion;
50 Praise|        they come on again, as we say, on horseback. But how much
51 Praise|    drowns more than he saves: to say nothing of those mischievous
52 Praise|         them.~But no man, you’ll say, ever sacrificed to Folly
53 Praise|         to what purpose is it to say anything of the common people,
54 Praise|       changing securities, as we say borrowing of Peter to pay
55 Praise|     their schools—schools, did I say? Nay, rather cloisters,
56 Praise|       greater number, that is to say all the fools and unlearned.
57 Praise|        food and raiment, as they say, should perish, than tell
58 Praise|          they think it enough to say they are not obliged by
59 Praise|          cast a mist?~But you’ll say, I jest. Nor are you without
60 Praise|         no Christian that should say these two speeches “matula
61 Praise|     vulgar can’t reach; for they say ’tis beneath the dignity
62 Praise|     anyone should preposterously say “Noster Magister,” he has
63 Praise|        all comes out, that is to say by hints and conjectures
64 Praise|          in his duty. Lastly, to say nothing of treasons, ill
65 Praise|     earthly affections —these, I say, and many of the like kind
66 Praise|        apostles? These things, I say, did they but duly consider,
67 Praise|      deprive him of—wisdom did I say? nay, the least corn of
68 Praise|    contrary, these jolly fellows say they have sufficiently discharged
69 Praise|      come near him. What shall I say? There is no measure or
70 Praise|     allege my proofs, that is to say, nothing to the point.~And
71 Praise|       his wisdom? Because, he’ll say, he has none at all. But
72 Praise|          or, lest remembering, I say, that he had compared them
73 Praise|       cut off the dispute, as we say, with a hatchet, and the
74 Praise|        and sucklings, that is to say, fools. For the Greek word
75 Praise|  troubled about what they should say before governors and straightly
76 Praise|           and out of which, they say, there is nothing to be
77 Praise|        they cannot see. But they say that in Sacraments and other
78 Praise|        in the Eucharist, though, say they, it is not to be esteemed
79 Praise|    organs, without doubt you may say ’tis downright madness and