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   1 Praise|           take his own words, Chapter 1, “I gave my heart to know
   2 Praise|                Again Solomon, Chapter 15, “Foolishness,” says he, “
   3 Praise|            clearly witnesses, Chapter 44, whose words, so help me,
   4 Pref  |         Moriae.~From the country, the 5th of the Ides of June.~
   5 Praise|              confess as much, Chapter 7, “The heart of the wise
   6 Praise|               have learned the cringe à la mode, know when and where
   7 Praise|            with all his slip-slops go a-begging. Lastly, you will be taken
   8 Praise|               the excuse of folly. So Aaron, in Numbers, if I mistake
   9 Praise|          between friends and enemies, abhor pleasure, are crammed with
  10 Praise|               like manner Christ ever abhors and condemns those wise
  11 Praise|           which all men, vanquishing, abolishing, and, as it were, burying
  12 Praise|            uncreated. They detest and abominate sin, but let me not live
  13 Praise|           whom I am had in reverence, aboveboard and, as it becomes gentlemen,
  14 Praise|              he is,” you have further abridged in this my Self-love, that
  15 Pref  |           gives me such delight in my absence, as when present with you
  16 Pref  |            mind, whose memory, though absent yourself, gives me such
  17 Praise|             blindness, poverty, envy, abstinence from pleasure, over-hasty
  18 Praise|              the mystery was yet more abstruse; for he so mathematically
  19 Praise|          perhaps may seem foolish and absurd, yet nothing more true.
  20 Praise|               prince a great lord and abundant in everything? But yet being
  21 Praise|               in, as jests, laughter, abuses of other men, wanton pastimes,
  22 Praise|               it is truly said by our academics, the least insolent of all
  23 Pref  |               not only with good will accept this small declamation,
  24 Praise|             in the Virgin’s womb; how accidents subsist in the Eucharist
  25 Praise|             please himself with their acclamations, to be carried on the people’
  26 Praise|          bound to me upon no ordinary accounts; while being happy in their
  27 Praise|    commonwealth with his hair-brained accusations; the other, while he too
  28 Praise|             but his wisdom that first accused and afterwards sentenced
  29 Praise|              Gospel you find him ever accusing the Scribes and Pharisees
  30 Praise|            did you ever see the least acknowledgment from anyone that had left
  31 Praise|               so long and intimate an acquaintance and converse with them I
  32 Praise|           part of bishops, and herein acquit themselves to be no blind
  33 Praise|              a quo” and the “terminus ad quem” of transubstantiation;
  34 Praise|           pilfered my friend Erasmus’ adages. Fortune loves those that
  35 Praise|            case and the verb, and the adjective and substantive: and while
  36 Praise|              of his own condition and admires that of others. Whence it
  37 Praise|              becoming him that scarce admits even kings to kiss his slipper;
  38 Praise|         perhaps he should have rather admonished us to beware of wisdom if
  39 Praise|          heretic, after once or twice admonition.” And when he had sundry
  40 Praise|           good emperor; for with much ado I can make it out) was become
  41 Praise|                and all the gardens of Adonis invite both your sight and
  42 Praise|          marketplace? Add to this the adoption of names and surnames, those
  43 Praise|          Romans ever more religiously adore than that of Flora, the
  44 Praise|           hidden things, rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute
  45 Praise|               best where she is least adulterated with art.~Go to then, don’
  46 Praise|              works of nature than the adulteries of art.~In like manner I
  47 Praise|            all men favor it, study to advance it, and lend it their helping
  48 Praise|              ll proceed to some other advantages.~Go to then. Suppose a man
  49 Praise|            the sword if a man made an adverb of a conjunction. And for
  50 Praise|               herein, as if, like the aediles of old, these were to present
  51 Praise|           youth at a stay and old age afar off;” as it is verified
  52 Pref  |               such is your incredible affability and sweetness of temper
  53 Praise|          amiss perhaps in so great an affair to call forth the Muses
  54 Praise|          forget their condition as to affect the life of gods; and after
  55 Praise|           heaven, if it be mixed with affectation? What youth, if corrupted
  56 Praise|               world is so differently affected one towards another, that
  57 Praise|             of divinity. The Italians affirm they are the only masters
  58 Praise|            winter the spring breathes afresh on the earth, all things
  59       | afterwards
  60 Praise|             an expression of Luke, so agreeable to the mind of Christ as
  61 Praise|              so wicked that it has no agreement with Christ; and yet, omitting
  62 Pref  |             deformity and the quartan ague; Synescius, baldness; Lucian,
  63 Praise|      endeavors have extolled tyrants, agues, flies, baldness, and such
  64 Praise|              needed to have prayed in aid of some other spirit.~Paul
  65 Praise|            and most men wondered what ailed the man, at last he explained
  66 Praise|            more necessary than either air, fire, or water; so delectable
  67 Praise|          Ulysses, “miserable;” Paris, Ajax, and Achilles nowhere. And
  68 Praise|             would consider what their Albe should put them in mind
  69 Praise|               opinion, is an absolute Alcaeus; and the other, in his,
  70 Praise|                forasmuch as my friend Aldus has given us above five,
  71 Praise|          hated of the gods, did not I allay the troubles of that pitiful
  72 Praise|            example, therefore, will I allege my proofs, that is to say,
  73 Praise|              Romanorum and expound it allegorically, tropologically, and anagogically.
  74 Pref  |          injustice is it that when we allow every course of life its
  75 Praise|             who though they lie by no allowance, swear and forswear, steal,
  76 Praise|               so great doctors may be allowed this liberty, you may the
  77 Praise|           point.~And first, every man allows this proverb, “That where
  78 Praise|            how many singers, how many almsmen they will have at it; as
  79 Praise|             purpose are ever next the altars; and this they do by mere
  80 Praise|            those too not without some alteration, for the whole inscription
  81 Praise|               on. As if Christ having altered his mind, in that he sent
  82 Praise|              and show them the way to amend them. In short, it makes
  83 Praise|                prayers, fastings, and amendment of life; such or such a
  84 Praise|          nothing else is signified by Amphion and Orpheus’ harp. What
  85 Praise|    allegorically, tropologically, and anagogically. And after this manner do
  86 Praise|              heavy burdens, reproofs, anathemas, executions in effigy, and
  87 Praise|         statues and pictures of their ancestors; run over their great-grandfathers
  88 Praise|            happen to find out who was Anchises’ mother, or pick out of
  89 Praise|            but, on the contrary, rue, angelica, bugloss, marjoram, trefoils,
  90 Praise|               out their eyes with new annotations; among whom my friend Erasmus,
  91 Praise|             moving here and there, is Anoia, Madness; she with the smooth
  92 Praise|               too they pick out their antagonist and think to raise themselves
  93 Praise|             themselves very Pauls and Anthonies.~But I willingly give over
  94 Praise|           jigs, and satyrs with their antics; while Pan makes them all
  95 Praise|              work miracles is old and antiquated, and not in fashion now;
  96 Praise|               do they give, partly to antiquity and partly to the name of
  97 Praise|            that of Athens. Besides M. Antoninus (that I may give you one
  98 Praise|              not in the least drunken Antony; so Nero, Seneca; and Dionysius,
  99       | anyhow
 100 Praise|           them alone in it. And if at anytime they chance to be taken,
 101 Praise|            beast, the people, are led anyway. Again what city ever received
 102 Praise|            and cherished by flattery, apishness, gentleness, ignorance,
 103 Praise|           believe they have then most apostolically defended the Church, the
 104 Praise|          other in it than to show the apparent folly of the sex. For if
 105 Praise|            arrogate to themselves the appearance and title of wise men and
 106 Praise|            with new wine, and if Paul appeared to Festus to be mad.~But
 107 Praise|             and so the contrary. What appears beautiful may chance to
 108 Praise|             And to this class do they appertain that slight everything in
 109 Praise|            people hiss at you, so you applaud yourself? And that a man
 110 Praise|              themselves when they are applauded by the common people, pointed
 111 Praise|              with gifts, to court the applauses of so many fools, to please
 112 Praise|              from battle; or make his application to Erasmus on certain days
 113 Praise|            creature and is used to be applied to dull-headed people and
 114 Praise|               which of these the mind applies itself, in that lies its
 115 Praise|            they who in their lifetime appoint with what solemnity they’
 116 Praise|             over those bounds she has appointed to us. Nature hates all
 117 Praise|           thick-skulled that he can’t apprehend them, or so impudent as
 118 Praise|              how much the nearer they approach to this old age, by so much
 119 Praise|               this wise man value the approbation of one or two blear-eyed
 120 Praise|              would he not, think you, approve the example of the Milesian
 121 Pref  |               and Gryllus; Lucian and Apuleius, with the ass; and some
 122 Praise|              following the example of Archilochius, threw away his arms and
 123 Praise|         purpose is it that that great Architect of the World, God, gave
 124 Praise|          bodies have, yet wherein has architecture gone beyond their building
 125 Praise|           syllogism in pieces. Subtly argued, I must confess, but as
 126 Praise|               that wise king in Plato argues touching the invention of
 127 Pref  |               s crabbish and specious arguments. As when one, with long
 128 Praise|              friendship between those Argus, so much as one hour, were
 129 Praise|                Augustine, no nor most Aristotelian Thomas himself can make
 130 Praise|               with beasts, and is not armed with horns as a bull. For
 131 Praise|             for its governor, or what army desire him for their general?
 132 Praise|           other, as it were in battle array, they cast a mist before
 133 Praise|               unless insomuch as they arrive to that highest part of
 134 Praise|            being spoken with too much arrogance, he foreshortened his argument
 135 Praise|           niceties; to define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty
 136 Praise|             was thus: “To the Gods of Asia, Europe, and Africa; To
 137 Praise|         Eucharist; yet, had they been asked the question touching the “
 138 Praise|            endeavors to get loose and assays, as it were, a flight out
 139 Praise|          empire, counsels, judgments, assemblies, wedlocks, bargains, leagues,
 140 Praise|             naturalists out of heart, astrologers laughed at, and logicians
 141 Praise|               so easily cut all knots asunder that a hatchet could not
 142 Praise|            mischievous gods, Plutoes, Ates, punishments, favors, and
 143 Praise|           Italian, a Thracian with an Athenian, nor a Scythian for the
 144 Praise|              fortunate general of the Athenians, of whom came that proverb, “
 145 Praise|              these, if ever they fall athwart them, they prick up—as whether
 146 Praise|               as the poets fancied of Atlas that he supported heaven
 147 Praise|          Jupiter himself, divum pater atque hominum rex, the father
 148 Praise|              them about my ears, they attack me by troops and force me
 149 Praise|              no great action was ever attempted without my motion, or art
 150 Praise|              a more special manner to attend their protectors, to examine
 151 Praise|              disciples not so royally attended as he should have done,
 152 Praise|               princes has many things attending it that are but too apt
 153 Praise|           will but favor me with your attention. And first, if prudence
 154 Praise|         Cicero, writing to his friend Atticus, wished to himself, that
 155 Praise|               brings them back to the attiring house. And yet he often
 156 Praise|            woman, and Folly too, have attributed folly to them. For if they
 157 Praise|              through his own wisdom;” attributing wisdom to God alone and
 158 Praise|               confirmed by blood, and augmented by blood, now, as if Christ,
 159 Praise|               nor St. Jerome, nor St. Augustine, no nor most Aristotelian
 160 Praise|               these Carmelites, those Augustines; these Williamites, and
 161 Praise|              Medeas, Circes, Venuses, Auroras, and I know not what other
 162 Praise|             virtue than its opposite, austerity, or a morose and troublesome
 163 Praise|               where several countries avouch to themselves their peculiar
 164 Praise|              story, they’re presently awake, prick up their ears and
 165 Praise|              encourages the fainting, awakens the stupid, refreshes the
 166 Praise|             the midwifery of Vulcan’s axe. And therefore you must
 167 Praise|          fellow, more deformed than a baboon, shall believe himself handsomer
 168 Praise|          conquered Africa or taken in Babylon.~But what of this when they
 169 Praise|              Christian, without these bachelors too be pleased to give him
 170 Praise|             age, by so much they grow backward into the likeness of children,
 171 Praise|             that fat plump “Epicurean bacon-hog,” Horace, for so he calls
 172 Praise|            princes while I praise the bad. And therefore, what I slightly
 173 Praise|         lading them also with bag and baggage, lest perhaps it might not
 174 Praise|              the other, as men toss a ball from hand to hand, following
 175 Praise|              twitter with some coarse ballad, which yet they had rather
 176 Praise|              as if knowledge were the bane of happiness; according
 177 Praise|               so many grooms, so many bankers: in short, that vast multitude
 178 Praise|               in a short time becomes bankrupt. Another starves himself
 179 Praise|              happiness, but under the banner of Folly. And first ’tis
 180 Praise|           which he had, at one of the banquets of the gods, taken a dose
 181 Praise|               knowledge himself. They baptized far and near, and yet taught
 182 Praise|              with his hat off, on his bare knees, and a couteau for
 183 Praise|             more than they get by the bargain? For of those that are slain,
 184 Praise|      judgments, assemblies, wedlocks, bargains, leagues, laws, arts, all
 185 Praise|             will they give over their barking till you throw the dogs
 186 Praise|       prophesied of the skin of Saint Bartholomew who was flayed alive. And
 187 Praise|              But the most foolish and basest of all others are our merchants,
 188 Praise|         thrown.” But wisdom makes men bashful, which is the reason that
 189 Praise|            like happen in Chrysostom, Basil, Jerome, they think it enough
 190 Praise|         hundred sixty-five heavens of Basilides the heretic’s invention,
 191 Praise|            all those dresses, washes, baths, slops, perfumes, and those
 192 Praise|          toothless, and wanting their baubles,” yet so delighted with
 193 Praise|          success, they would send the bawling Scotists, the most obstinate
 194 Praise|            the sun begins to show his beams, or when after a sharp winter
 195 Praise|            daffodil, mallows, onions, beans, and such contemptible things
 196 Praise|             furred gowns and starched beards that they look upon themselves
 197 Praise|               there are men, everyone bearing my lively resemblance in
 198 Praise|           country people were wont to bedaub him with new wine and figs.
 199 Praise|        mercenary Levite come to their bedside, where he chops over his
 200 Praise|      prosperous or wonderful than the bee? And though they have not
 201 Praise|             almost happened to me, as befell the Priapus in Horace. And
 202 Praise|         savage a thing that it rather befits beasts than men, so outrageous
 203 Praise|             to laugh, for that he now began to live by having got an
 204 Praise|              herself called Flattery, begets everywhere; for self-love
 205 Praise|         damage of the commonwealth of beggars. And yet, like pleasant
 206 Praise|             despise, especially those begging friars, because they are
 207 Praise|              feasts, “either drink or begone,” undertakes to disprove
 208 Praise|              that limping blacksmith, begot in the sad and irksome bonds
 209 Praise|            boasting of his family ill begotten or base, because he is so
 210 Praise|             And for this also you are beholden to me, by whose means it
 211 Praise|              So then, if you owe your beings to wedlock, you owe that
 212 Praise|              while each of the ladies believes herself so much nearer to
 213 Praise|            mystery of the cross, from bell and the dragon; or to dispute
 214 Praise|               wherewith to fill their bellies. And why all this? but that
 215 Praise|               hands that our passions belong to Folly; inasmuch as we
 216       | below
 217 Praise|             condemn it but handsomely bend it to their own purpose,
 218 Praise|         Crossed; and again, these are Benedictines, those Bernardines; these
 219 Praise|             laying aside their habit, benedictions, and all the like ceremonies,
 220 Praise|           holy men, because the whole bent of their minds is taken
 221 Praise|               are Benedictines, those Bernardines; these Carmelites, those
 222 Pref  |           partly more biting than may beseem the modesty of a Christian,
 223 Praise|               a mean thing, and least beseeming a bishop, to show the least
 224 Praise|               what troops of diseases beset us, how many casualties
 225       | beside
 226 Praise|            had pleased, he might have bestrode the lion without danger.
 227 Praise|               philosophers, by alpha, beta.~But the most pleasant of
 228 Praise|               the common people. I’ll betake me to them that carry the
 229 Praise|               threw away his arms and betook him to his heels e’er he
 230 Praise|         meantime they have one or two beverages, and then supper, and after
 231 Praise|              this wise man pitied and bewailed their palpable madness that
 232 Praise|            should bid a man that were bewailing the death of his father
 233 Praise|               rather admonished us to beware of wisdom if we intended
 234 Praise|         certain fifth essence; men so bewitched with this present hope that
 235 Praise|              live.’ But every heretic bewitches the people; therefore, etc.”
 236 Praise|               empty vainglory, a most bewitching siren? And yet ’tis strange
 237 Praise|             logic, where there was no bickering about the double-meaning
 238 Praise|          Hercules! what uproars, what bickerings, what taunts, what invectives!
 239 Praise|              of them, nay the veriest bigot of the sect, and if he do
 240 Praise|           into a tree, another into a bird, a third into a grasshopper,
 241 Praise|               to mention those strong bits, sharp spurs, close stables,
 242 Praise|              without doubt but more a blab of his tongue than crafty,
 243 Praise|             These are they “that turn black into white,” blow hot and
 244 Praise|          other’s feathers, washes the blackamoor white, and lastly swells
 245 Praise|              was I, like that limping blacksmith, begot in the sad and irksome
 246 Praise|             them in mind of, to wit a blameless life; what is meant by their
 247 Praise|               nor perceive a ditch or block that lies in their way,
 248 Praise|         adding, changing, putting in, blotting out, revising, reprinting,
 249 Praise|       contrary are delighted in those blunter and unlabored wits, in like
 250 Praise|               than those trifles they boast of. And yet by means of
 251 Praise|        pretends to himself, makes his boasts of it as confidently as
 252 Praise|             stuff; things so thin and bodiless that I believe even Lynceus
 253 Praise|           being less clogged with its bodily weight, may be the more
 254 Praise|         precepts of wisdom, he should boggle at perjury; or being taken
 255 Praise|              a part in the play, they bolt out with some question in
 256 Praise|            slings, quarterstaffs, and bombards; lading them also with bag
 257 Praise|          begot in the sad and irksome bonds of matrimony. Yet, mistake
 258 Praise|             till you throw the dogs a bone. And now tell me, what juggler
 259 Praise|             excellent person;” lie on booksellers’ stalls; and in the top
 260 Praise|            merry among his friends, a boon companion, and easy to be
 261 Praise|               their sort who nowadays boozle young men’s heads with certain
 262 Praise|              are often counterfeit or borrowed from some books of the ancients?
 263 Praise|           husband, nor the usurer the borrower, nor a soldier his commander,
 264 Praise|        changing securities, as we say borrowing of Peter to pay Paul, and
 265 Praise|            set out with trappings and bosses there wants little but they
 266 Praise|            had broken the seal of his bottle, he would not have run mad
 267 Praise|               men’s souls beneath the bottom of hell: which yet these
 268 Praise|            and hunt after that golden bough, as says the proverb. Among
 269 Praise|               of these truly they are bountiful enough: as interdictions,
 270 Praise|          willing enough to confess my bounty, yet not one of them for
 271 Praise|               bubsequa for a cowherd, bovinator for a wrangler, manticulator
 272 Praise|               may put the dice in the box for them? A pleasant thing,
 273 Praise|              as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes this
 274 Praise|             be able to carry; another brags he has not touched a penny
 275 Praise|            most men, is nothing but a branch of flattery, no less than
 276 Praise|              whereas he adds the word bravem, short, perhaps to help
 277 Praise|             be clearly ashamed of his bravery, and be afraid lest some
 278 Praise|           should go naked than want a brawling-iron by their sides. And to this,
 279 Praise|              if anyone hearing an ass bray should take it for excellent
 280 Praise|         ordinarily pleased with their braying. And some there are among
 281 Praise|             brother without the least breach of that charity which, by
 282 Praise|              so many deceits, so many breaches of trusts, so many treacheries
 283 Praise|               And therefore I’ll even break off; and yet, before I do
 284 Praise|             they are half up. Then to breakfast, which is scarce done but
 285 Praise|           fellows. Another escaped by breaking prison. Another recovered
 286 Praise|               holy minds so pantingly breathe, like to be? To wit, the
 287 Praise|               sharp winter the spring breathes afresh on the earth, all
 288 Praise|       forasmuch as we are so born, so bred, so instructed, nay such
 289 Praise|            the injuries of stones and briars nor the provision of a scrip
 290 Praise|                Nay, rather cloisters, bridewells, or slaughterhouses—grown
 291 Praise|             the other? Otherwise, the brightness of their hair, toothless
 292 Praise|       pleasantness grow flat, and its briskness fail. And by how much the
 293 Praise|               of Scotus, a thing more bristly than either porcupine or
 294 Praise|           stuff made, how many straws broad their girdles and of what
 295 Pref  |           they will sooner endure the broadest scoffs even against Christ
 296 Praise|              believed what stir, what broils, this little creature raises,
 297 Praise|           that other of hell is but a brook in comparison), from which,
 298 Praise|        suddenly have you cleared your brows, and with so frolic and
 299 Praise|               fishers. Besides, among brute beasts he is best pleased
 300 Praise|         overthrew it. Add to this the Bruti, Casii, nay Cicero himself,
 301 Praise|             grosser senses, they seem brutish and stupid in the common
 302 Praise|          commonly known—as suppose it bubsequa for a cowherd, bovinator
 303 Praise|           pleasure they take to see a buck or the like unlaced? Let
 304 Praise|       apostles ever used or swords or bucklers against the Gentiles, though ’
 305 Praise|            may make it,” or hire some buffoon flatterer, whose ridiculous
 306 Praise|            not cloak his thefts? What buffoonery that Vulcan is not guilty
 307 Praise|               to jugglers, fools, and buffoons, and such as our friend
 308 Praise|              contrary, rue, angelica, bugloss, marjoram, trefoils, roses,
 309 Praise|            And of these, a great part build so much on their ceremonies
 310 Praise|           ever sacrificed to Folly or built me a temple. And troth,
 311 Praise|          spear and a countenance like bullbeef? Why is Cupid always portrayed
 312 Praise|          again; another produces more bundles of ceremonies than seven
 313 Praise|        interdictions, hangings, heavy burdens, reproofs, anathemas, executions
 314 Praise|               How many are there that burn candles to the Virgin Mother,
 315 Praise|               seen when he said, “The burnt child dreads the fire.”
 316 Praise|          abolishing, and, as it were, burying their carnal affections,
 317 Praise|           that sour look, rough skin, bushy beard, and such other things
 318 Praise|               always a stripling, and bushy-haired? but because he is mad,
 319 Praise|         Heidah! How soldier-like they bustle about the jus divinum of
 320 Praise|           folly, and are every day so busy in inventing new, that a
 321 Praise|              with their syllogistical buttresses. And how great a happiness
 322 Praise|            fly should make so great a buzz, he meddled not with anything
 323 Praise|      cursorily, and as it were by the bye, when yet it is the only
 324 Praise|           taken, and being shut up in cages endeavor to imitate our
 325 Praise|             men “wretched and full of calamity,” but often his great pattern
 326 Praise|             the other, in his, a very Callimachus. He looks upon Tully as
 327 Praise|           enjoyment of their friends, calling friendship the most desirable
 328 Praise|               large enough to cover a camel; is it not charity that
 329 Praise|            from the learned. But more candidly does that fat plump “Epicurean
 330 Pref  |             such sport with Claudius’ canonizations; Plutarch, with his dialogue
 331 Praise|              that I had on the square cap and the cassock, for fear
 332 Praise|               one among them that was capable of understanding the least “
 333 Praise|      compassing when he wrote “Humano capiti,” etc.~But they have heard
 334 Praise|              they go to dice, tables, cards, or entertain themselves
 335 Praise|              those Bernardines; these Carmelites, those Augustines; these
 336 Praise|             as it were, burying their carnal affections, ought to express
 337 Praise|               make no more scruple of carrying it away than if it were
 338 Praise|             and her charge. Another’s cart broke, and he saved his
 339 Praise|             if it were not the way of carters and swineherds that have
 340 Praise|     mendicants; the mendicants on the Carthusians, among whom, if anywhere,
 341 Praise|               day; or do but salute a carved Barbara, in the usual set
 342 Praise|                Add to this the Bruti, Casii, nay Cicero himself, that
 343 Praise|             on the square cap and the cassock, for fear some or other
 344 Praise|             their knuckles, to hire a caster, or one that may put the
 345 Praise|               of things, modesty that casts a mist before the understanding,
 346 Praise|             his at Athens when having casually espied the inscription of
 347 Praise|             as old as they are, still caterwauling, daily plastering their
 348 Praise|            truth of which I think the Catoes give sufficient credit;
 349 Praise|           came that proverb, “His net caught fish, though he were asleep;”
 350 Praise|     recommended folly but gave them a caution against wisdom and drew
 351 Praise|             of blind Homer’s as blind caves: but in the Fortunate Islands,
 352 Praise|       sophists. Their business was to celebrate the praises of the gods
 353 Praise|            papal decretals; while, as censors of the world, they force
 354 Praise|              have, may more justly be censured? If wealth is to be got,
 355 Praise|               who would purchase that chair with all his substance?
 356 Praise|              by fewer. After that the Chaldean superstition and Greek newfangledness,
 357 Praise|               mathematician could not chalk it out more plainly. And
 358 Praise|           many slips, oversights, and chances of human life, and how is
 359 Praise|                 which name of his was changed to Morychus, for that sitting
 360 Praise|           grown hoarse with his daily chanting; another has contracted
 361 Praise|             But yet neither the first Chaos, Orcus, Saturn, or Japhet,
 362 Praise|              of delible and indelible characters. They worshiped, ’tis true,
 363 Praise|              governors and straightly charged them not to inquire after
 364 Praise|              s loose loves? When that chaste Diana shall so far forget
 365 Praise|             like—should this wise man chat to the people, from what
 366 Praise|             lest those choughs should chatter at me that Greek proverb
 367 Praise|               of mild, broken speech, chatting, toying, forgetfulness,
 368 Praise|               by way of correction or checking himself, “I am more,” as
 369 Praise|               wisdom? Whereas women’s cheeks are ever plump and smooth,
 370 Praise|              their expectations, they cheer up themselves with this
 371 Praise|               speak like a mouse in a cheese start out of a sudden into
 372 Praise|       understood not grammar, nor ate cheese-cakes; and the bull miserable,
 373 Praise|            and his wife supported and cherished by flattery, apishness,
 374 Praise|            doctors, seraphic doctors, cherubin doctors, holy doctors, unquestionable
 375 Praise|               any drawer in your iron chests more private than other,
 376 Praise|             that is Holy Writ, like a cheverel; and when there are many
 377 Praise|          consider either the peril of child-bearing or the trouble of bringing
 378 Praise|           Least. But a ridiculous and childish fable of the belly and the
 379 Praise|              attained by courting old childless men with presents; and others
 380 Praise|              manner do they and their chimera, and such as Horace despaired
 381 Praise|        Cassius, Brutus, that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality,
 382 Praise|             very smell of which would choke another, and yet believed
 383 Praise|           practices of our feasts, as choosing a king, throwing dice, drinking
 384 Praise|               their bedside, where he chops over his matins before they
 385 Praise|               when he said, “God hath chosen the foolish things of this
 386 Praise|          wittingly conceal lest those choughs should chatter at me that
 387 Praise|           comparison of the more than Chrysippean subtleties of our masters.
 388 Praise|             many of them that neither Chrysippus’ nor Didymus’ volumes are
 389 Praise|              so if the like happen in Chrysostom, Basil, Jerome, they think
 390 Praise|              so frequently hung up in churches, nay up to the very roof
 391 Praise|               know is the order among churchmen, that he that is first in
 392 Praise|             hear very Demosthenes and Ciceroes: of which sort chiefly are
 393 Praise|              Vulcan half covered with cinders; or even Pallas herself,
 394 Praise|          packing and seek out Medeas, Circes, Venuses, Auroras, and I
 395 Praise|             matter on the square of a circle.~I have heard myself one,
 396 Praise|               triangles, quadrangles, circles, and the like mathematical
 397 Praise|              point out their enemy by circumlocutions that there’s no one but
 398 Praise|            hold it equally unlucky to circumscribe her whose deity is universal,
 399 Praise|           such as are morose and more circumspect than needs, as being eagle-sighted
 400 Praise|              new ways of draining the citizens’ purses and bringing it
 401 Praise|             provided always you be so civil on the other side as to
 402 Praise|         impudence that oftentimes the civilians envy them that faculty.~
 403 Praise|              An ape is an ape, though clad in scarlet;” so a woman
 404 Praise|               happiness those of Rome claim the first place, still dreaming
 405 Praise|           governor and make a hideous clamor, till at last being wearied,
 406 Praise|            hears. Wherefore farewell, clap your hands, live and drink
 407 Pref  |           Seneca made such sport with Claudius’ canonizations; Plutarch,
 408 Praise|              they praise, admire, and claw one another. Whereas if
 409 Praise|      necessary we got another kind of clay and some better potter.
 410 Praise|             let them see how they are clean out of the way, with the
 411 Praise|              pleasing dotage not only clears the mind of its troublesome
 412 Pref  |             no man better defends his client, though the cause many times
 413 Praise|              get anything under their cloaks, they make no more scruple
 414 Praise|               what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties,
 415 Praise|           that the spirit, being less clogged with its bodily weight,
 416 Praise|                did I say? Nay, rather cloisters, bridewells, or slaughterhouses—
 417 Praise|             men be against so great a cloud of gainsayers?~But they
 418 Praise|   crab-favoured Pallas’ spear nor the cloud-gathering Jupiter’s shield either
 419 Praise|    Aristophanes, philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring how
 420 Praise|         instead of a well-bred man, a clown. So necessary a thing it
 421 Praise|            both elbows with her hands clutched together is Misoponia, Laziness;
 422 Praise|           sketched on the wall with a coal was to be worshiped with
 423 Praise|            them all twitter with some coarse ballad, which yet they had
 424 Praise|             among these too, some are Colletes, some Minors, some Minims,
 425 Praise|               quoted the Devil to the collier. For what difference between
 426 Praise|             be obtained unless he had colored his offense with folly and
 427 Praise|                Nature hates all false coloring and is ever best where she
 428 Praise|              I guess, a most pleasant combat and such a victory as was
 429 Praise|                they put all things in combustion. And among these there are
 430 Praise|             not, have not the ancient comedies thrown on him? O foolish
 431 Praise|            influence, or like a fatal comet to send mischief and destruction;
 432 Praise|              is, to instruct, exhort, comfort, reprehend, admonish, compose
 433 Praise|               without a sword that he commanded them to get one, though
 434 Praise|           borrower, nor a soldier his commander, nor one companion another,
 435 Praise|            horses, sell dignities and commanderies, and invent new ways of
 436 Praise|        ceremonies, so act the part of commanders that they think it a mean
 437 Praise|               Jews? I acknowledge one commandment, which is truly mine, of
 438 Praise|          everyone flatter himself and commend himself to himself before
 439 Praise|        towerings! what triumphs! what commendations! as if they had conquered
 440 Praise|         censure nothing escapes; that commits no errors himself, but has
 441 Praise|          alike felt, nor so generally communicated; and that a prince stands
 442 Praise|             bought off, as it were by compact; and so bought off that
 443 Praise|              of those dull troops and companies of soldiers with which they
 444 Praise|       remembering, I say, that he had compared them to sparrows and lilies,
 445 Praise|            look upon me as a fool for comparing myself with those false
 446 Praise|             two or three lines with a compass, presently thinks himself
 447 Praise|               it were, with a pair of compasses; lay down the causes of
 448 Praise|           such as Horace despaired of compassing when he wrote “Humano capiti,”
 449 Praise|             things, or what angry god compelled them to be born into such
 450 Praise|               in his eye may stand in competition with Venus, is it not the
 451 Praise|          themselves, love him without competitors, and live with him in Plato’
 452 Praise|       barbarously or tediously soever compiled, which he has not turned
 453 Praise|          attempt is enough,” and then complain of the shortness of man’
 454 Praise|             waste of health, spoil of complexion, weakness of eyes or rather
 455 Praise|           like this, when with mutual compliments they praise, admire, and
 456 Praise|             such is his that does not comply with the present time “and
 457 Praise|         comfort, reprehend, admonish, compose wars, resist wicked princes,
 458 Praise|              say, mere lies; and yet, composing themselves with a seeming
 459 Praise|         infinite, does he not seem to comprehend all men, unless it be some
 460 Praise|                whose name I wittingly conceal lest those choughs should
 461 Praise|          gives Him thanks that He had concealed the mystery of salvation
 462 Praise|             too that are only rich in conceit, and while they fancy to
 463 Pref  |             you. In the next place, I conceived this exercise of wit would
 464 Praise|               ll say, is not of least concern in matters of war. In a
 465 Praise|              they have, the more they conduce to human life, which, if
 466 Praise|            easily taken up, which yet conduces as much or more to happiness.
 467 Praise|        destruction, and are so little conducive to happiness that they rather
 468 Praise|            the fool,” thereby plainly confessing that without folly there
 469 Praise|             men’s secrets by means of confessions, as they call them. Which
 470 Praise|             more troublesome and less confident, and lastly, please only
 471 Praise|             makes his boasts of it as confidently as if it were his own. And
 472 Praise|               pound.” Besides, he has confined reason to a narrow corner
 473 Praise|          Christ was founded in blood, confirmed by blood, and augmented
 474 Praise|            mathematical devices, more confounded than a labyrinth, and letters
 475 Praise|              by it.~The apostles also confuted the heathen philosophers
 476 Praise|             exotic and next degree to conjuring; which, by the immortal
 477 Praise|     flattering, other while prudently conniving, and generally sweetening
 478 Praise|             cross; and what Peter had consecrated if he had administered the
 479 Praise|           organs, then, by the common consent of every man, ’tis downright
 480 Praise|          exercises. Nor is this least considerable: so many scribes, so many
 481 Praise|             nor danger which he never considers, can discourage from anything?
 482 Praise|           take prudence for that that consists in the judgment of things,
 483 Praise|             Greek proverb) has made a construction on an expression of Luke,
 484 Praise|          philosophy.” When yet if you consult historians, you’ll find
 485 Praise|               as if you had come from consulting an oracle. And as it usually
 486 Praise|               in the battle, while he contends for victory, he’s cut down
 487 Praise|             they begin, use a strange contention of voice in every part,
 488 Praise|            many debaucheries, so many contentions, so many murders, so many
 489 Praise|            dead through fear when the contest is only with empty words?~
 490 Praise|            joins friends together and continues them so joined. I speak
 491 Praise|             is impossible but that he contract a popular odium, to wit,
 492 Praise|          which cause there’s so great contrarity of opinion between them,
 493 Praise|             multitudes of laws merely contrived for their own profit, corrupt
 494 Praise|              or expense, but are ever contriving how they may cheat themselves,
 495 Praise|              when all the debates and controversies of those times were rude
 496 Praise|            express in their lives and conversations that they may grow up to
 497 Praise|               commands heretics to be convinced by fire rather than reclaimed
 498 Praise|          second courses I am the only cook; though yet those ordinary
 499 Praise|           happens to those that being cooped up in a cave stand gaping
 500 Praise|              so many scribes, so many copying clerks, so many notaries,