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1 Praise| bargains, leagues, laws, arts, all things light or serious— 2 Praise| of folly.~But to speak of arts, what set men’s wits on 3 Praise| first, as I said before, arts were invented by the evil 4 Praise| fleas. As therefore those arts are best that have the nearest 5 Praise| new inventions and occult arts undertake to change the 6 Praise| you of our professors of arts? Forasmuch as this self-love 7 Praise| knew in my time one of many arts, a Grecian, a Latinist, 8 Praise| pleasantly. For these are the arts that speak a man truly noble