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1 Praise| no sooner stepped up to speak to this full assembly than 2 Praise| I ever liked it best to speak whatever came first out.~ 3 Praise| and such other things as speak plain old age in a man, 4 Praise| continues them so joined. I speak of ordinary men, of whom 5 Praise| here, I must confess, I speak foolishly, it being the 6 Praise| witness; who stepping up to speak somewhat, I know not what, 7 Praise| sentence. What should I speak of Theophrastus, who being 8 Praise| that could never begin to speak without an odd kind of trembling, 9 Praise| pastime of folly.~But to speak of arts, what set men’s 10 Praise| But, O you gods, “shall I speak or hold my tongue?” But 11 Praise| ever like to be. Nay, to speak plainer, he sets up a stony 12 Praise| for that these wise men speak to princes about nothing 13 Praise| honest men and such as speak truth. And what is more 14 Praise| the rest should dare to speak to them things rather true 15 Praise| fellow should step up and speak things as they are, as, 16 Praise| were gods.~But what do I speak of any one or the other 17 Praise| the height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such 18 Praise| their own opinion when they speak most barbarously; and when 19 Praise| they that otherwise would speak like a mouse in a cheese 20 Praise| but such as know how to speak pleasant things and not 21 Praise| these are the arts that speak a man truly noble and an 22 Praise| inches fatter, to see them speak big words; while each of 23 Praise| unwillingly acknowledge it; “I speak,” says he, “like a fool. 24 Praise| the vizard of folly, “I speak like a fool,” because he 25 Praise| prerogative of fools to speak what they like, and that 26 Praise| theologically on this text, “I speak as a fool, I am more,” drew 27 Praise| form but matter also—“I speak like a fool,” that is, if 28 Praise| a fool,” and further, “I speak it not after the Lord, but 29 Praise| that which is infinite. To speak briefly, all Christian religion 30 Praise| proverb, “Sometimes a fool may speak a word in season,” unless