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 501 Praise|            while they call themselves Cordiliers, and among these too, some
 502 Praise|          poverty, hunger, and chimney corners; that they live such neglected,
 503 Praise|              shame to them that their corpse were not honorably interred;
 504 Praise|             to say, without anyone to correct them. For what ridiculous
 505 Praise|            friends, and nine years in correcting, yet never fully satisfied;
 506 Praise|               he added this by way of correction or checking himself, “I
 507 Pref  |               when Polycrates and his corrector Isocrates extolled tyranny;
 508 Praise|            the other there is no more correspondence than between lambs and wolves.
 509 Praise|           affectation? What youth, if corrupted with the severity of old
 510 Praise|            expressions and if need be corrupting the sense, wrest it to their
 511 Praise|             the privilege of speaking corruptly, in which yet every cobbler
 512 Praise|          Furies, so pestilent that it corrupts all men’s manners, so unjust
 513 Praise|           knowledge, which first will cost him dear, and next render
 514 Praise|        dropped down among us from the council of the gods; while in the
 515 Praise|          Iliads contain but a kind of counter-scuffle between foolish kings and
 516 Praise|         almost the same where several countries avouch to themselves their
 517 Praise|               of these kind of second courses I am the only cook; though
 518 Praise|         ingrateful dissemblers of the courtesies I have done them and such
 519 Praise|              truly noble and an exact courtier. But if you look into their
 520 Praise|              them easiest attained by courting old childless men with presents;
 521 Praise|           wipe away tediousness, next cousin to the other.~But perhaps
 522 Praise|              on his bare knees, and a couteau for that purpose (for every
 523 Praise|               his gray hairs; another covers his baldness with a periwig;
 524 Praise|            more allowable through the covert of folly? For us also makes
 525 Praise|             Or Isocrates, that was so cowhearted that he dared never attempt
 526 Praise|             suppose it bubsequa for a cowherd, bovinator for a wrangler,
 527 Praise|              without parables, not to cowls, odd prayers, and fastings,
 528 Praise|            swear and forswear, steal, cozen, and cheat, yet shuffle
 529 Praise|              from me? For neither the crab-favoured Pallas’ spear nor the cloud-gathering
 530 Praise|             they are from it that yet crack of the name. For first ’
 531 Praise|               blab of his tongue than crafty, is believed to have discovered
 532 Praise|          enemies, abhor pleasure, are crammed with poverty, watchings,
 533 Praise|             of divine mysteries to be cramped and tied up to the narrow
 534 Praise|              with paleness, leanness, crassness, sore eyes, and an old age
 535 Praise|               or a substance, a thing created or uncreated. They detest
 536 Praise|            cobbler, yet ’tis scarcely credible how they flatter themselves
 537 Praise|              and mockers have run the credulous into such mischief. But
 538 Praise|     haughtiness on all others as poor creeping things and could almost
 539 Praise|           letters.~Sciences therefore crept into the world with other
 540 Praise|            Ecclesiastes, who, when he cries out, “Vanity of vanities,
 541 Praise|            with the conscience of his crimes; the other, but nothing
 542 Praise|              master, have learned the cringe à la mode, know when and
 543 Praise|             those frogs of the Stoics croak at me and say that nothing
 544 Praise|          worldly business; what their crosier, but a careful looking after
 545 Praise|             Minors, some Minims, some Crossed; and again, these are Benedictines,
 546 Praise|              endeavor to peck out the crows’ eyes; that is, to blind
 547 Praise|              preach the doctrine of a crucified Christ, but furnished at
 548 Praise|              of Aristophanes, “Nasty, crumpled, miserable, shriveled, bald,
 549 Praise|             might venture a rubber at cuffs, a man otherwise so weak
 550 Praise|               I pray but that, like a cunning fellow and one that was
 551 Praise|        religious than with an impious curiosity to dive into the secrets
 552 Praise|            only subject to those five curses with which Home begins his
 553 Praise|            the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of
 554 Praise|            Scripture, but handle them cursorily, and as it were by the bye,
 555 Praise|              the infernal gods, or Q. Curtius to leap into the gulf, but
 556 Praise|        trolling it round, dancing the cushion, and the like, were not
 557 Praise|          parasites, panders, thieves, cut-throats, plowmen, sots, spendthrifts,
 558 Praise|          wrangler, manticulator for a cutpurse—or dig up the ruins of some
 559 Praise|             most inward parts, and so cuts off as it were at one blow
 560 Praise|        Polyphemus footing time to his Cyclops hammers, the nymphs with
 561 Praise|              as Phoebus at Rhodes; at Cyprus, Venus; at Argos, Juno;
 562 Praise|               in whose fields neither daffodil, mallows, onions, beans,
 563 Praise|             to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff,
 564 Praise|             exchequer; but under such dainty new-found names that though
 565 Praise|              neither forbear wine nor dallying with women. In a word, ’
 566 Praise|          intrude not, to the no small damage of the commonwealth of beggars.
 567 Praise|             was so cowhearted that he dared never attempt it? Or Tully,
 568 Praise|              a habit, or that ’tis of darker color, they put all things
 569 Praise|           things through the thickest darkness that never were.~Add to
 570 Praise|            awhile, and assist me, you daughters of Jupiter, while I make
 571 Praise|               Greek than if they were daws. Especially when a no small
 572 Praise|              As if the Church had any deadlier enemies than wicked prelates,
 573 Praise|              among a company of boys, deaf with their noise, and pined
 574 Praise|              who does not know what a dearth there is of wise men, if
 575 Praise|               especially when all the debates and controversies of those
 576 Praise|               find them mere sots, as debauched as Penelope’s wooers; you
 577 Praise|                so many lusts, so many debaucheries, so many contentions, so
 578 Praise|           cheat any man of their just debts than not pay the money they
 579 Praise|              not fade, its liveliness decay, its pleasantness grow flat,
 580 Praise|             if it were a matter to be decided by the sword if a man made
 581 Praise|               contrary, what made the Decii devote themselves to the
 582 Praise|         consequently submitted to his decision of the question. Nor came
 583 Praise|            mistake, I would have said declaimer—as too often it happens,
 584 Pref  |           good will accept this small declamation, but take upon you the defense
 585 Praise|              wit, those three letters declaring to us that he was the beginning,
 586 Praise|             him; for that it was only declined with three cases, he said,
 587 Praise|              purity of the golden age declining by degrees, first, as I
 588 Praise|              fume that Saint Paul had decreed it, who said, “Reject him
 589 Praise|             metamorphosis, help their decrepitness as much as in me lies by
 590 Praise|            preferred before the papal decretals; while, as censors of the
 591 Pref  |              it, for as much as being dedicated to you, it is now no longer
 592 Praise|             of life. And so does this deep interpreter of the divine
 593 Praise|               then most apostolically defended the Church, the spouse of
 594 Praise|               the law, but diligently defending the ignorant multitude (
 595 Praise|               that cause their master defines philosophy to be a contemplation
 596 Praise|            For since according to the definition of the Stoics, wisdom is
 597 Praise|              with so many magisterial definitions, conclusions, corollaries,
 598 Pref  |         Glauco, injustice; Favorinus, deformity and the quartan ague; Synescius,
 599 Praise|             of no reputation, and the deification of the most wicked tyrants
 600 Praise|             made the least mention of delible and indelible characters.
 601 Praise|             to another. The sprightly delicious wine that drives away cares
 602 Praise|             be accounted wise that he delights to be worshiped with sports
 603 Praise|             Apollo’s, in the floating Delos, nor Venus-like on the rolling
 604 Praise|             there, where when one was demanding what authority there was
 605 Praise|      confidence in such like defense, demands of them whether they wanted
 606 Praise|        inventing new, that a thousand Democriti are too few for so general
 607 Praise|            imports when you call them demons, that is to say, knowing.
 608 Praise|             Go to then, let’s try how demonstrable this is; not by enthymemes
 609 Praise|           them has so philosophically demonstrated how she was preserved from
 610 Praise|             hunger. And when they had denied that they wanted anything,
 611 Praise|       fountain that not only restores departed youth but, which is more
 612 Praise|           their own wisdom but wholly depend on him. And to the same
 613 Praise|              which time retainers and dependents are wont in a more special
 614 Praise|               also a lessening of his depraved affections: as that he be
 615 Praise|            would the access of wisdom deprive him of—wisdom did I say?
 616 Praise|             made; how original sin is derived to posterity; in what manner,
 617 Praise|          empty title of nobility. One derives his pedigree from Aeneas,
 618 Praise|            Timon, he retire into some desert and there enjoy his wisdom
 619 Praise|             help men; and if they are deservedly enrolled among the gods
 620 Praise|               s sake I often mention, deserves if not the first place yet
 621 Praise|              be free from all worldly desires and think of nothing but
 622 Praise|             lastly, he is so far from desiring to be accounted wise that
 623 Praise|           privily rifled our masters’ desks in that I have got so much
 624 Praise|           chimera, and such as Horace despaired of compassing when he wrote “
 625 Praise|           when ye are evil spoken of, despised, and persecuted, etc.,”
 626 Praise|            and lambs; and such as are destined to eternal life are called
 627 Praise|       according to the account of the destinies this life has left them;
 628 Praise|             topsy-turvy. Nor are they destitute of their learned flatterers
 629 Praise|               of his prophet, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
 630 Praise|             of Rome were like to have destroyed all by their mutiny, reduced
 631 Praise|        disallows it as puffing up and destructive; whence also St. Bernard
 632 Praise|             theft be never so plainly detected, that yet they should enjoy
 633 Praise|         physic; though yet I have not determined whether every distemper
 634 Praise|         willingly to so many and such detestable masters. Again if he should
 635 Praise|             that place that his least deviation from the rule of honesty
 636 Pref  |            another finds out some new device for the better ordering
 637 Praise|         contrary, what made the Decii devote themselves to the infernal
 638 Praise|        Whereas on the contrary, these devout persons, by how much the
 639 Pref  |     canonizations; Plutarch, with his dialogue between Ulysses and Gryllus;
 640 Praise|     conversant among those golden and diamond gods, what is more unprofitable
 641 Praise|             another; a crown set with diamonds, that should put him in
 642 Praise|               neither Chrysippus’ nor Didymus’ volumes are large enough
 643 Praise|               whereas the world is so differently affected one towards another,
 644 Praise|               kind of somewhat little differing from madness; for they utter
 645 Praise|        everyone to a recantation that differs but a hair’s breadth from
 646 Praise|             that every good, the more diffusive it is, by so much the better
 647 Praise|        manticulator for a cutpurse—or dig up the ruins of some ancient
 648 Praise|           stable of fine horses, sell dignities and commanderies, and invent
 649 Praise|             who shall most enrich the dilatory judge or corrupt advocate.
 650 Praise|             it by fallacies, sorites, dilemmas, or other the like subtleties
 651 Praise|             were flatter the care and diligence of their nurses? And then
 652 Praise|            the secrets of nature, the dimension of stars, the motions, effects,
 653 Praise|               whom, to say nothing of Diogenes, Xenocrates, Cato, Cassius,
 654 Praise|               point under a fortunate direction. Ecclesiastes says in his
 655 Praise|               when Fortune, the great directress of all human affairs, and
 656 Praise|               there you lay them; but dirt you throw out of doors.
 657 Praise|          several degrees wherein they disagree among themselves. And first
 658 Praise|               to which also, St. Paul disallows it as puffing up and destructive;
 659 Praise|                that he might the more disarm his ministers, that neglecting
 660 Praise|              up and by experience and discipline brought to savor something
 661 Pref  |               it is no dishonor to be discommended by Folly; and having brought
 662 Praise|      perplexed; heap together all the discommodities of your life, and then you’
 663 Praise|             to their breasts whatever discontents they have against their
 664 Praise|               he never considers, can discourage from anything? The wise
 665 Praise|        mentioned, “an ass at a harp,” discoursing magisterially and theologically
 666 Praise|               one foot further in the discovery of the follies and madnesses
 667 Praise|               which it is, as being a discrete quantity, is transient;
 668 Praise|           this, I leave it to them to discuss; for my own part, I follow
 669 Praise|              But then chiefly do they disdain the unhallowed crowd as
 670 Praise|             and down in one another’s disguises and act their respective
 671 Praise|        another, and yet believed it a dish for the gods, what difference
 672 Praise|               base; to be vanquished, dishonorable and little becoming him
 673 Praise|               sober forenoon hours to dispatch business and receive prayers,
 674 Praise|              so many offices, so many dispensations, so much tribute, so many
 675 Praise|           that they are not lords but dispensers of spiritual things of which
 676 Praise|         sports and gambols; nor is he displeased with the proverb that gave
 677 Praise|             which exact equality, how disproportionate it is, among such variety
 678 Praise|             or begone,” undertakes to disprove a common received opinion.
 679 Pref  |               best? Farewell, my best disputant More, and stoutly defend
 680 Pref  |           there be anyone that is yet dissatisfied, let him at least remember
 681 Praise|              that are such ingrateful dissemblers of the courtesies I have
 682 Praise|                gentleness, ignorance, dissembling, certain retainers of mine
 683 Praise|               that father of trifles, dissent from me; who not only called
 684 Praise|              having fancied a danger, dissuades us from the attempt. But
 685 Praise|             color everything is, what distinction of habits, of what stuff
 686 Praise|               slip through with their distinctions, with which they so easily
 687 Praise|              grace; but which of them distinguishes between free grace and grace
 688 Praise|             from all those cares that distract a wise man; he is not the
 689 Praise|             and goblins. They are not distracted with the fear of evils to
 690 Praise|            the dejected, relieves the distressed, encourages the fainting,
 691 Praise|             out of modesty and partly distrust of himself, attempts nothing;
 692 Praise|            remove from a wise man all disturbances of mind as so many diseases.
 693 Praise|              of whom the one was ever disturbing the peace of the commonwealth
 694 Praise|            themselves, nor perceive a ditch or block that lies in their
 695 Praise|               an impious curiosity to dive into the secrets of nature,
 696 Praise|             be, did not these kind of diversions wipe away tediousness, next
 697 Praise|           giddy multitude are so long divided to whether of the two they
 698 Praise|             they bustle about the jus divinum of titles, and how quick-sighted
 699 Praise|               of life. Good God! What divorces, or what not worse than
 700 Praise|              nay and Jupiter himself, divum pater atque hominum rex,
 701 Praise|           seen,” he did not define it doctor-like. And as he understood charity
 702 Praise|              What more fawning than a dog? And yet what more trusty?
 703 Praise|             boys’ foolish mothers and dolt-headed fathers they pass for such
 704 Praise|                idiots, lack-wits, and dolts; splendid titles too, as
 705 Praise|            subjected all things to my dominion and erected an empire over
 706 Praise|              gods! what Palemon, what Donatus, do they not scorn in comparison
 707 Praise|         banquets of the gods, taken a dose extraordinary.~And as to
 708 Praise|              notwithstanding, is this dotard exempt from all those cares
 709 Praise|           shape of a man; stutterers, dotards, toothless, gray-haired,
 710 Praise|            yet how pleasantly do they dote while they frame in their
 711 Praise|            had rather “be accounted a dotterel and sot than to be wise
 712 Praise|            was no bickering about the double-meaning words? What need of rhetoric,
 713 Praise|             they can but appear to be double-tongued, and believe they have done
 714 Praise|          against the hair.” For as it doubles the crime if anyone should
 715 Praise|            than things visible; which doubtless is that which the prophet
 716 Praise|           came down in the shape of a dove, not of an eagle or kite.
 717 Praise|        manuscript and pick out half a dozen of the most old and obsolete
 718 Praise|              cross, from bell and the dragon; or to dispute of fasting,
 719 Praise|                and invent new ways of draining the citizens’ purses and
 720 Praise|               enough; if there be any drawer in your iron chests more
 721 Praise|            after time they are so far drawn on with the hopes of winning
 722 Praise|               that chiefest good that draws all things into itself.
 723 Praise|               even Pallas herself, so dreadful with her Gorgon’s head and
 724 Praise|             he said, “The burnt child dreads the fire.” For there are
 725 Praise|          therefore suppose that Plato dreamed of somewhat like it when
 726 Praise|          spendthrifts, and such other dregs of mankind, not philosophers;
 727 Praise|           other purpose are all those dresses, washes, baths, slops, perfumes,
 728 Praise|         sprightly delicious wine that drives away cares and leaves such
 729 Praise|              and as he was a pleasant droll, persuaded her that they
 730 Praise|             it be but as the smallest drop in comparison of that fountain
 731 Praise|              plague among us. Neptune drowns more than he saves: to say
 732 Praise|             Plato attributes truth to drunkards and children, yet the praise
 733 Praise|               feared not in the least drunken Antony; so Nero, Seneca;
 734 Praise|           prey upon their spirits and dry up their radical moisture?
 735 Praise|             that more than a tenth is due! Yet in the meantime it
 736 Praise|             Another, run through in a duel, recovers. Another, while
 737 Praise|            better if instead of those dull troops and companies of
 738 Praise|              is used to be applied to dull-headed people and lack-wits. And
 739 Praise|            make an oration, became as dumb as if he had met a wolf
 740 Praise|         praiseworthy; what learned, a dunce; what lusty, feeble; what
 741 Praise|           body, as conqueror and more durable; and this it shall do with
 742 Praise|          common sayings, “He does not dwell at home,” “Come to yourself,” “
 743 Praise|               opinion, and as if they dwelt in the third heaven, they
 744 Praise|             be thought young that one dyes his gray hairs; another
 745 Praise|               betook him to his heels e’er he had scarce seen his
 746 Praise|            shape of a dove, not of an eagle or kite. Add to this that
 747 Praise|      circumspect than needs, as being eagle-sighted into his friends’ faults,
 748 Praise|            inner purple; is it not an earnest and fervent love of God?
 749 Praise|             shall do with the greater ease because heretofore, in its
 750 Praise|             there are that think them easiest attained by courting old
 751 Praise|        friends, a boon companion, and easy to be lived with; and lastly
 752 Praise|        monument with the letters half eaten out; O Jupiter! what towerings!
 753 Praise|     remembered Harpocrates, lest some eavesdropping god or other take us whispering
 754 Praise|         little at a stand whether the ecclesiastical German electors gave them
 755 Praise|               over to those they call ecclesiastics, as if themselves were no
 756 Praise|           causes of lightning, winds, eclipses, and other the like inexplicable
 757 Praise|             bread.~A most inhuman and economical thing, and more to be execrated,
 758 Praise|               her; while one nobleman edges out another, that he may
 759 Praise|               Intemperance, the other Eegretos hypnos, Dead Sleep. These,
 760 Praise|      dimension of stars, the motions, effects, and hidden causes of things;
 761 Praise|           pardon even me also, a raw, effeminate divine, if I quote not everything
 762 Praise|             was the formal, material, efficient, and final cause of baptism,
 763 Praise|              anathemas, executions in effigy, and that terrible thunderbolt
 764 Praise|              those we have already an eighth! a goodly one, no doubt,
 765 Praise|              I met with another, some eighty years of age, and such a
 766 Praise|             has not wanted them whose elaborate endeavors have extolled
 767 Praise|               had his servants at his elbow to prompt him the names;
 768 Praise|             that sits leaning on both elbows with her hands clutched
 769 Praise|             the ecclesiastical German electors gave them this example,
 770 Praise|              pass that all her gifts, elegancy, and graces corrupt and
 771 Praise|           Sophocles in that his happy elegy of us, “To know nothing
 772 Praise|            lastly swells a gnat to an elephant. In short, I will follow
 773       | elsewhere
 774 Praise|               straight forth into the Elysian field, to recreate their
 775 Praise|               there was once one good emperor; for with much ado I can
 776 Praise|            and erected an empire over emperors themselves. Thus have you
 777 Praise|            with, if only as to public employments they were “like a sow upon
 778 Praise|        concerned only fortunetellers, enchanters, and magicians, whom the
 779 Praise|             valiant men. And the like encomium shall you hear from me,
 780 Praise|      reciprocal epistles, verses, and encomiums; fools their fellow fools,
 781 Praise|             have, and prepare for the encounter, Christ, intending to take
 782 Praise|             their pleasant dreams but encourage others, as much as in them
 783 Praise|               and incentives, nay and encouragers to well doing: which though
 784 Praise|              and then, that the first ended in S, the second in M, the
 785 Praise|               can but shuffle in some ends of Greek like mosaic work,
 786 Praise|              but would be so far from enduring another that he would stink
 787 Praise|               and ready to perish for Endymion? But I had rather they should
 788 Praise|              riches; for which, being enflamed with the love of Christ,
 789 Praise|             when both sides are close engaged “and the trumpets make an
 790 Pref  |         awhile since out of Italy for England, that I might not waste
 791 Praise|             and rest satisfied in the enjoyment of their friends, calling
 792 Praise|           whom their devices will not enliven? who so stupid whom such
 793 Praise|             men are at irreconcilable enmity, and contrary, the common
 794 Praise|            and if they are deservedly enrolled among the gods that first
 795 Praise|             vice, ’tis a shame how it enslaves him. I might in like manner
 796 Praise|               of a labyrinth than the entanglements of the realists, nominalists,
 797 Praise|          syllogisms, they dare boldly enter the lists against any man
 798 Praise|             the ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man to
 799 Praise|               and matter of all famed enterprises? And yet what more foolish
 800 Praise|             whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments,
 801 Praise|             If there can be any great entertainment without a woman at it, let
 802 Praise|             being the only thing that entertains the eyes of the spectators.
 803 Praise|          demonstrable this is; not by enthymemes or the imperfect syllogisms
 804 Praise|              keeps them so joined. It entices children to take their learning,
 805 Praise|            prickly quiddities, that I entreat the soul of Scotus, a thing
 806 Praise|           fearful, nor ambitious, nor envious, nor love they any man.
 807 Praise|             turned over and examined; envying every man’s attempts in
 808 Praise|         candidly does that fat plump “Epicurean bacon-hog,” Horace, for
 809 Praise|             Iliads, as says the Greek epigram, but six hundred; as being
 810 Praise|          unless perhaps you expect an epilogue, but give me leave to tell
 811 Praise|             it to others in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter
 812 Praise|           given you my name, but what epithet shall I add? What but that
 813 Praise|            way of boasting herein had equaled himself with to others,
 814 Praise|              hours sleep; which exact equality, how disproportionate it
 815 Praise|               division; for I hold it equally unlucky to circumscribe
 816 Praise|              carries yet some face of equity; adding to this some little
 817 Praise|             betook him to his heels e’er he had scarce seen his enemy;
 818 Praise|             things to my dominion and erected an empire over emperors
 819 Praise|             mad; but he that not only errs in his senses but is deceived
 820 Praise|            most of the wife’s actions escape the husband’s knowledge
 821 Praise|       impeaching his fellows. Another escaped by breaking prison. Another
 822 Praise|           Athens when having casually espied the inscription of that
 823 Praise|              to live by having got an estate, without which life is but
 824 Praise|              so that they waste their estates, neglect injuries, suffer
 825 Praise|            seem yet a greater fool by esteeming myself before them; though
 826 Praise|              and end (summum, medium, et ultimum) of all. Nay, the
 827 Praise|            presently thinks himself a Euclid. A third, that understands
 828 Praise|               Greeks excellently call euetheian? And you may render by folly
 829 Praise|           thus: “To the Gods of Asia, Europe, and Africa; To the unknown
 830 Praise|               at least to observe the evangelical precept.~Besides, that folly
 831 Praise|             things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen,” he
 832 Praise|              the name. For first ’tis evident that all human things, like
 833 Praise|        himself is both the author and exactor: that he is to take an account
 834 Praise|               has not turned over and examined; envying every man’s attempts
 835 Pref  |                And though such is the excellence of your judgment that it
 836 Praise|             for that which the Greeks excellently call euetheian? And you
 837 Praise|            the higher privileged from exceptions; and I am mistaken if, when
 838 Praise|          pleasure, liberty, flattery, excess; for which cause he should
 839 Praise|            bringing it into their own exchequer; but under such dainty new-found
 840 Pref  |           Christian, and consequently exclaim that I resemble the ancient
 841 Praise|                And yet, if you should exclude me, there’s no man but would
 842 Praise|         well-bred men. The Parisians, excluding all others, arrogate to
 843 Praise|               terrible thunderbolt of excommunication, with the very sight of
 844 Praise|       extraordinary out of their very excrement. And then what pleasure
 845 Praise|             better than youth or more execrable than age, I conceive you
 846 Praise|      economical thing, and more to be execrated, that those great princes
 847 Praise|             so unjust that it is best executed by the worst of men, so
 848 Praise|            and the like, not gods but executioners. I am that only Folly that
 849 Praise|         burdens, reproofs, anathemas, executions in effigy, and that terrible
 850 Praise|       notwithstanding, is this dotard exempt from all those cares that
 851 Praise|         thousand the like troublesome exercises. Nor is this least considerable:
 852 Praise|              men, I pray, that are so exhausted with study that their thin,
 853 Praise|               words read, but chiefly exotic and next degree to conjuring;
 854 Praise|               quite lost in all their expectations, they cheer up themselves
 855 Praise|           smooth and even as might be expected from a master, they do not
 856 Praise|         wicked princes, and willingly expend not only their wealth but
 857 Praise|        repents them of their pains or expense, but are ever contriving
 858 Praise|         anyone has a mind to make the experiment, let him go to church and
 859 Praise|              take pet, and require an expiatory sacrifice if some ceremony
 860 Praise|             ailed the man, at last he explained it thus, making two words
 861 Praise|            being in a famous assembly explaining the mystery of the Trinity,
 862 Praise|            terms. Besides, while they explicate the most hidden mysteries
 863 Praise|              rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute of them with
 864 Praise|              small and uncertain gain exposes his life to the casualties
 865 Praise|           corrupt him by their forced expositions, and murder him by the evil
 866 Praise|            his own man again, he thus expostulates with them, “Now, by Pollux,
 867 Praise|     Historiale or Gesta Romanorum and expound it allegorically, tropologically,
 868 Praise|             lest some or other gibing expounder turn all this tragical furniture
 869 Praise|            the Trinity was so clearly expressed in the very rudiments of
 870 Praise|             shows it in his looks and expresses it in his discourse; while
 871 Praise|             made a construction on an expression of Luke, so agreeable to
 872 Praise|           here and there four or five expressions and if need be corrupting
 873 Praise|            shall hear from me a plain extemporary speech, but so much the
 874 Praise|          reason it might as well have extended to fornication and drunkenness.~
 875 Praise|           understand how far my deity extends, and what advantage by it
 876 Praise|            though it be of so vast an extent, they are hardly able to
 877 Praise|                signifying thereby the extremity of ill fortune. But I forbear
 878 Praise|           their faces, painting their eyebrows, and smoothing their skins?
 879 Praise|               got the hiccough; which Fabius interprets as an argument
 880 Praise|               foolish multitudes with fabulous inventions; with which kind
 881 Praise|          instant that beauty does not fade, its liveliness decay, its
 882 Praise|             had their interchangeable failings, one while flattering, other
 883 Praise|           never before. For who is so faint whom their devices will
 884 Praise|            distressed, encourages the fainting, awakens the stupid, refreshes
 885 Praise|               this pool or touch this fair but unsavory plant, as a
 886 Praise|      household servants, and by their faithful counsels I have subjected
 887 Praise|               go about to prove it by fallacies, sorites, dilemmas, or other
 888 Praise|             than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy
 889 Praise|                wantoning, growing up, falling, and dying. Nor is it to
 890 Praise|             set of new teeth; another falls desperately in love with
 891 Praise|     understanding and is therefore so familiar with him, is also partaker
 892 Praise|              a stranger than have any familiarity with them.~But no man, you’
 893 Praise|              ancient matches of their families, when themselves yet are
 894 Praise|             that were boasting of his family ill begotten or base, because
 895 Praise|           themselves. And so it would fare with me, as it does with
 896 Praise|          their life. And therefore it fares with them as, according
 897 Praise|              a great part of them are farthest from religion, and no men
 898 Praise|            like a sponge, continually fastened to the same place; another
 899 Praise|         reckon you so many myriads of fasts, and fetch them up again
 900 Praise|         harmless influence, or like a fatal comet to send mischief and
 901 Praise|               have hastened their own fate? Were they not the next
 902 Praise|       sometimes gone away many inches fatter, to see them speak big words;
 903 Praise|             thought that introduction faulty that was wide of the matter,
 904 Pref  |           tyranny; Glauco, injustice; Favorinus, deformity and the quartan
 905 Praise|             of true beasts. What more fawning than a dog? And yet what
 906 Praise|           Brutus and Cassius, when he feared not in the least drunken
 907 Praise|                Invite a wise man to a feast and he’ll spoil the company,
 908 Praise|         themselves beauty, music, and feasting. The Scots are proud of
 909 Praise|              a pitiful jay in other’s feathers, washes the blackamoor white,
 910 Praise|         learned, a dunce; what lusty, feeble; what jocund, sad; what
 911 Praise|              pass over a few years in feeding their foolish fancies.~And,
 912 Praise|               of all sense and common feeling of humanity. And much good
 913 Praise|         neither shoes to defend their feet from the injuries of stones
 914 Praise|           their breast from what they feign with their tongue. Yet in
 915 Praise|               young again that Sappho fell in love with him. Mine are
 916 Praise|             chiefest pleasure in good fellowship. If there can be any great
 917 Praise|               other men are not alike felt, nor so generally communicated;
 918 Praise|           looks, tormenting them with ferules, rods, and whips; and, laying
 919 Praise|              is it not an earnest and fervent love of God? Or what that
 920 Praise|               and if Paul appeared to Festus to be mad.~But now, having
 921 Praise|            many myriads of fasts, and fetch them up again in one dinner
 922 Praise|               the soul is plunged and fettered in the prison of the body,
 923 Praise|               when, having broken its fetters, it endeavors to get loose
 924 Praise|            Another recovered from his fever in spite of his physician.
 925 Praise|             them as, according to the fiction of Plato, happens to those
 926 Praise|        opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of
 927 Praise|           ever heard of; and in whose fields neither daffodil, mallows,
 928 Praise|              had better converse with fierce lions, merciless tigers,
 929 Praise|             His vicars hurl with more fierceness against none than against
 930 Praise|           tell you he has lived these fifty-five years like a sponge, continually
 931 Praise|               which that stump of the fig tree Priapus does not afford
 932 Praise|             up somewhat; when as that fig-tree-god Priapus hearing his owner
 933 Praise|          bedaub him with new wine and figs. And of scoffs, what not,
 934 Praise|          others, and change the whole figure of their countenance, one
 935 Praise|        whether there be more than one filiation in Christ; whether it be
 936 Pref  |             up that forgotten sink of filth and ribaldry, but laid before
 937 Praise|              material, efficient, and final cause of baptism, nor made
 938 Praise|         haircloth, their inner of the finest linen; and, on the contrary,
 939 Praise|            clearly as it were with my finger.~And now tell me if to wink,
 940 Praise|        between them, it is in no wise firm nor very long lived; that
 941 Praise|           little children, women, and fishers. Besides, among brute beasts
 942 Praise|          mountain whereon Lucifer had fixed his habitation to be the
 943 Praise|               to that height had they flattered him that he did not question
 944 Praise|               cares and leaves such a flavor behind it grows not everywhere.
 945 Praise|             Saint Bartholomew who was flayed alive. And why, forsooth,
 946 Praise|            ideas, measuring how far a flea could leap, and admiring
 947 Praise|       continual warfare with lice and fleas. As therefore those arts
 948 Praise|             part, I follow those fat, fleshy, and vulgarly approved doctors,
 949 Praise|            young wench and keeps more flickering about her than a young man
 950 Praise|             and assays, as it were, a flight out of that prison that
 951 Praise|             or pity than if he were a flint or rock; whose censure nothing
 952 Praise|        neither, like Apollo’s, in the floating Delos, nor Venus-like on
 953 Praise|        religiously adore than that of Flora, the foundress of all pleasure?
 954 Praise|              has it in another place, florid. In which respect also they
 955 Praise|          commonwealth, and in a word, flourish every way. For if it be
 956 Praise|             may not only laugh at but flout, if I go one foot further
 957 Praise|       production of gnats, herbs, and flowers should have so slept when
 958 Praise|               that wedlock to this my follower, Madness; and what you owe
 959 Praise|              the whole world with all food and raiment, as they say,
 960 Praise|            And yet by reason of these fooleries they not only set slight
 961 Praise|              and now and then play at football. And with these and a thousand
 962 Praise|            country dances, Polyphemus footing time to his Cyclops hammers,
 963 Praise|            master, nor the master his footman, nor the scholar his tutor,
 964 Praise|               and a thousand the like fopperies their heads are so full
 965 Praise|           plain that wisdom, which he forbids a man to hide, is of less
 966 Praise|          Himself, if at least the two forefingers be stretched out, the hair
 967 Praise|      supercilious gravity, smooth his forehead, shake off his rigid principles,
 968 Praise|              admiring what seems most foreign without its particular grace;
 969 Praise|            they set aside their sober forenoon hours to dispatch business
 970 Praise|           with too much arrogance, he foreshortened his argument with the vizard
 971 Praise|           place, nevertheless, having forespoke our theologians that they’
 972 Praise|             for his enemies, “Father, forgive them,” nor does he cover
 973 Praise|      everything by an exact line, and forgives nothing; pleases himself
 974 Pref  |             of Juvenal, raked up that forgotten sink of filth and ribaldry,
 975 Praise|           taught nowhere what was the formal, material, efficient, and
 976 Praise|              as well have extended to fornication and drunkenness.~But I foolishly
 977 Praise|               no allowance, swear and forswear, steal, cozen, and cheat,
 978 Praise|               to myself the praise of fortitude and industry, what think
 979 Praise|            wisdom, nor access to that fortress as they call it of happiness,
 980 Praise|               that law concerned only fortunetellers, enchanters, and magicians,
 981 Praise|              is more unadvised than a forward unseasonable prudence. And
 982 Praise|         proverb will answer for you, “Foul water is thrown out of doors;”
 983 Praise|           folly is that that laid the foundation of cities; and by it, empire,
 984 Praise|              it? Or Tully, that great founder of the Roman eloquence,
 985 Praise|              you see that those first founders of it were plain, simple
 986 Praise|               than that of Flora, the foundress of all pleasure? Nay, if
 987 Praise|             and I know not what other fountains of restoring youth. I am
 988 Praise|          should have insisted on. And fourthly, as it were changing a part
 989 Praise|            Themistocles in his of the fox and hedgehog. What wise
 990 Praise|             have least in them of the foxes’ subtlety. And therefore
 991 Praise|         Lastly, the mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken
 992 Praise|              as it becomes gentlemen, frankly. And truly, if they had
 993 Praise|               thought himself mad and frantic? For as nothing is more
 994 Praise|              one kisses his mistress’ freckle neck, another the wart on
 995 Praise|             friends and physic he was freed from his distemper and become
 996 Praise|              these folly sufficiently frees us, and few there are that
 997 Praise|               logical subtleties. The French think themselves the only
 998 Praise|            that in Scripture there is frequent mention of harts, hinds,
 999 Praise|          those offerings which are so frequently hung up in churches, nay
1000 Praise|             the fables of ghosts, nor frightened with spirits and goblins.
1001 Praise|             with which at pleasure he frightens the rest of the gods, and
1002 Praise|             they please themselves in frighting a company of fearful boys