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1003 Praise|               man, a fish, a horse, a frog, and, I believe too, a sponge;
1004 Praise|              her virtue were lame and fruitless without the help of my deity.
1005 Praise|           shadows of things; and that fugitive who, having broke from them
1006 Praise|           doctor, answered in a great fume that Saint Paul had decreed
1007 Praise|          lions, merciless tigers, and furious leopards. For that flattery
1008 Praise|               them to provide another furnace. And yet they have not done
1009 Praise|      expounder turn all this tragical furniture into a ridiculous laughingstock.~
1010 Praise|             much reverenced for their furred gowns and starched beards
1011 Praise|          degenerate from their native gaiety. So much better in every
1012 Praise|             for a small and uncertain gain exposes his life to the
1013 Praise|           against so great a cloud of gainsayers?~But they are the wiser
1014 Praise|             is that is not steeped in gall? To say nothing of those
1015 Praise|                the most beautiful and galliard of all the rest. Nor was
1016 Praise|              dancing, revels, and May games, not having so much as the
1017 Praise|          often as he had a mind to be gamesome? And so I have shown you
1018 Praise|           understanding.~And then for gamesters, I am a little doubtful
1019 Praise|              than himself and opens a gap to many men’s ruin. Besides,
1020 Praise|               prick up their ears and gape after it. In like manner,
1021 Praise|          violets, lilies, and all the gardens of Adonis invite both your
1022 Praise|                Laziness; she with the garland on her head, and that smells
1023 Praise|            religious that their upper garment is haircloth, their inner
1024 Praise|               that sitting before the gates of his temple, the wanton
1025 Praise|            trouble. But in racking to gather money they truly act the
1026 Praise|           much as sin; from whence he gathered that it was Jesus that took
1027 Praise|             diligent of all others in gathering in the harvest of money,
1028 Praise|            the business of the world, gathers, if I mistake not, the true
1029 Praise|        condemned questions, disputes, genealogies, and, as himself calls them, “
1030 Praise|             were invented by the evil genii; and yet but few, and those
1031 Praise|            old devil Theuth, the evil genius of mankind, first invented
1032 Praise|             seems to doubt under what genus he should put woman, to
1033 Praise|            whether the ecclesiastical German electors gave them this
1034 Praise|           reputation of soldiery. The Germans pride themselves in their
1035 Praise|             of Speculum Historiale or Gesta Romanorum and expound it
1036 Praise|              does, that is to say the getting of children: And the Stoics
1037 Praise|          without danger. And the Holy Ghost came down in the shape of
1038 Praise|             afraid lest some or other gibing expounder turn all this
1039 Praise|          against the other; while the giddy multitude are so long divided
1040 Praise|              with their philosophical gimcracks make a war upon nature:
1041 Praise|               many straws broad their girdles and of what fashion, how
1042 Praise|            old wife, and a boy on his girl.” These things are not only
1043 Praise|               see, that true and only giver of wealth whom the Greeks
1044 Pref  |           Isocrates extolled tyranny; Glauco, injustice; Favorinus, deformity
1045 Praise|            pleasant, and, as it were, glue it together.~And what has
1046 Praise|          whole body of divinity, sits gnawing a radish and is in continual
1047 Praise|           what is common with him and goats; yet at least he must lay
1048 Praise|             show the least courage to Godward unless it be in a battle.~
1049 Praise|               haste he can to set all going, and another rakes it together
1050 Praise|             have such a husband, what goodfellow such a guest, or what servant
1051 Praise|         herself, so dreadful with her Gorgon’s head and spear and a countenance
1052 Praise|           scarce ever from the glass, gossiping, dancing, and writing love
1053 Praise|            hundred of the best picked gossips. And yet their condition
1054 Praise|            and when a justly deserved gout has knotted their knuckles,
1055 Praise|               people, were lost, they govern all by the sword. And whereas
1056 Praise|           reverenced for their furred gowns and starched beards that
1057 Praise|              her gifts, elegancy, and graces corrupt and perish. For
1058 Praise|            argument, that Folly is so gracious above that her errors are
1059 Praise|               it that we have as many grammars as grammarians; nay more,
1060 Praise|               their kingdoms to their grand ministers, and they again
1061 Praise|            prolonged the youth of her grandfather Tithon. I am that Venus
1062 Praise|        matters of war. In a general I grant it; but this thing of warring
1063 Praise|           into a bird, a third into a grasshopper, serpent, or the like. As
1064 Praise|             do not fear sometimes “to grate their tender ears with smart
1065 Praise|               had stolen out of their graves, and ever mumbling in their
1066 Praise|               young that one dyes his gray hairs; another covers his
1067 Praise|       stutterers, dotards, toothless, gray-haired, bald; or rather, to use
1068 Praise|            wears a cowl so lined with grease that the poorest tarpaulin
1069 Praise|             ancestors; run over their great-grandfathers and the great-great-grandfathers
1070 Praise|            great-grandfathers and the great-great-grandfathers of both lines, and the ancient
1071 Praise|              excellent of all men, so greatly do they please themselves
1072 Praise|             Islands, where all things grew without plowing or sowing;
1073 Praise|        increases knowledge, increases grief; and in much understanding
1074 Praise|        unsupportable our old age, and grievous our unavoidable death? As
1075 Praise|            the toothache; another for groaning women; a third, for stolen
1076 Praise|               many muleteers, so many grooms, so many bankers: in short,
1077 Praise|               most repugnant to these grosser senses, they seem brutish
1078 Praise|            prison of the body, by the grossness of which it is so tied up
1079 Praise|        snatching, playing, wantoning, growing up, falling, and dying.
1080 Praise|               such a flavor behind it grows not everywhere. Beauty,
1081 Praise|               who chose rather to lie grunting in a hog sty than be exposed
1082 Praise|              horses, such mules, such guards, and so much pleasure would
1083 Praise|       Saracens; and they would see, I guess, a most pleasant combat
1084 Praise|                what goodfellow such a guest, or what servant would either
1085 Pref  |               but discover either his guilt or fear. Saint Jerome sported
1086 Praise|              Curtius to leap into the gulf, but an empty vainglory,
1087 Praise|            who from those tents which Habakkuk mentions, “The tents of
1088 Praise|         whereon Lucifer had fixed his habitation to be the mountain of knowledge.~
1089 Praise|               is, what distinction of habits, of what stuff made, how
1090 Praise|            that they most obstinately hack and hew one another about
1091 Praise|             the commonwealth with his hair-brained accusations; the other,
1092 Praise|           that their upper garment is haircloth, their inner of the finest
1093 Praise|          young that one dyes his gray hairs; another covers his baldness
1094 Praise|             be hanged if you find one half-witted fellow, nay or so much as
1095 Praise|           conjurer, or fight with one hallowed sword against another, which
1096 Praise|              proverb goes, “to take a halter and hang themselves.” Besides
1097 Praise|           footing time to his Cyclops hammers, the nymphs with their jigs,
1098 Praise|               texts of Scripture, but handle them cursorily, and as it
1099 Pref  |             matter, and foolery is so handled that the reader that is
1100 Praise|         baboon, shall believe himself handsomer than Homer’s Nereus. Another,
1101 Praise|             enough: as interdictions, hangings, heavy burdens, reproofs,
1102 Praise|             notice of the wallet that hangs behind their own shoulders.
1103 Praise|           whereas the like had almost happened to me, as befell the Priapus
1104 Praise|              same man to the best and happiest part of his life. And if
1105 Praise|             dares any mortal give him harbor, though I must confess there
1106 Praise|              safety to mankind by his harmless influence, or like a fatal
1107 Praise|            twere better we remembered Harpocrates, lest some eavesdropping
1108 Praise|          there is frequent mention of harts, hinds, and lambs; and such
1109 Praise|               were weary of life have hastened their own fate? Were they
1110 Praise|               gentleman! who with his hat off, on his bare knees,
1111 Praise|               given up to pleasure, a hater of learning, liberty, and
1112 Praise|             to the money you give the hatred of sin, tears, watchings,
1113 Praise|          third heaven, they look with haughtiness on all others as poor creeping
1114 Praise|     pretenders to religion which they haven’t. And now I have a mind
1115 Praise|                and when they humh and hawh so pitifully that none but
1116 Praise|             with the other to so many hazards. Nor does Homer, that father
1117 Praise|            and another for some great he-knows-not-what. Another leaves his wife
1118 Praise|             goddess of mischief, down headlong to the earth, because his
1119 Praise|            was made sin that he might heal sinners. Nor did he work
1120 Praise|          friendly, an enemy; and what healthful, noisome. In short, view
1121 Praise|               throwing dice, drinking healths, trolling it round, dancing
1122 Praise|            man that remembers what he hears. Wherefore farewell, clap
1123 Praise|            could almost find in their hearts to pity them; while hedged
1124 Praise|            time when he had been well heated with nectar, of which he
1125 Praise|            them with such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them
1126 Praise|              common with those of the heathens, that they are vigilant
1127 Praise|              interdictions, hangings, heavy burdens, reproofs, anathemas,
1128 Praise|           told us that that letter in Hebrew was schin or sin, and that
1129 Praise|               and magicians, whom the Hebrews call in their tongue “Mecaschephim,”
1130 Praise|            hearts to pity them; while hedged in with so many magisterial
1131 Praise|             so strong of perfumes, is Hedone, Pleasure; she with those
1132 Praise|              sound which they neither heed themselves, nor is it understood
1133 Praise|            arms and betook him to his heels e’er he had scarce seen
1134 Praise|           sanctity of their prelates. Heidah! How soldier-like they bustle
1135 Praise|         understand them, they call it heights which the vulgar can’t reach;
1136 Praise|         starves himself to enrich his heir. Another for a small and
1137 Praise|           miters, whose each point is held in by the same knot, we’
1138 Praise|       Tarentum, Neptune; and near the Hellespont, Priapus—as long as the
1139 Praise|          swear by his master’s brazen helmet is an oath for a prince.
1140 Praise|             he should have need to be helped by sciences, which that
1141 Praise|         advance it, and lend it their helping hand? And whence, I pray,
1142 Praise|     respective order; while they that hem him in admire it with silence,
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1144 Praise|       irreverent; this has a smack of heresy; this no very good sound:
1145 Praise|               Holy Writ that commands heretics to be convinced by fire
1146 Praise|                 tis true, my Father’s heritage, and that without parables,
1147 Praise|              conceive himself another Hermogenes. But of all madness that’
1148 Praise|          ought to excel all others in heroic virtues; besides a scepter,
1149 Praise|              he, that is, in spite of Hesiod, Homer, nay and Jupiter
1150 Praise|             most obstinately hack and hew one another about a matter
1151 Praise|           like a boy that had got the hiccough; which Fabius interprets
1152 Praise|             which he forbids a man to hide, is of less account than
1153 Praise|             their governor and make a hideous clamor, till at last being
1154 Praise|            his own country; so that a Highlander has no desire to change
1155 Praise|               death, and the like; so highly does this wise man value
1156 Praise|                invention of his white hind? Or his ridiculous emblem
1157 Praise|            want of preaching him, but hinder his spreading by their multitudes
1158 Praise|            which it is so tied up and hindered that it cannot take a view
1159 Praise|            more readily and with less hindrance take in hand the work of
1160 Praise|            frequent mention of harts, hinds, and lambs; and such as
1161 Praise|            the sun,” what else did he hint at in it but that all mankind
1162 Praise|          comes out, that is to say by hints and conjectures but suppressing
1163 Praise|            gotten a Hercules, another Hippolytus, and a St. George, whose
1164 Praise|         foolishly he carries it! nay, hires others to bear him company
1165 Praise|          please no man, the player be hissed off the stage, the poet
1166 Praise|         insipid fable out of Speculum Historiale or Gesta Romanorum and expound
1167 Praise|               When yet if you consult historians, you’ll find no princes
1168 Praise|            also, if, as you have done hitherto, you will but favor me with
1169 Pref  |               it so, that I rode on a hobbyhorse. For what injustice is it
1170 Praise|           foolishly bolted out such a hodgepodge of words. ’Tis an old proverb, “
1171 Praise|               out of that prison that holds it in, they call it madness;
1172 Praise|         retainers of mine also! Whoop holiday! how few marriages should
1173 Praise|          faults. They that would seem holier than myself, let them if
1174 Praise|           come nearest my friends the Hollanders. And why should I not call
1175 Praise|            himself, divum pater atque hominum rex, the father of gods
1176 Praise|              they are the only plain, honest men and such as speak truth.
1177 Praise|         discourse was pleasanter than honey, whereas Achilles’ was both
1178 Praise|            that their corpse were not honorably interred; so curious are
1179 Praise|            walk like asses in scarlet hoods, though after all their
1180 Praise|               the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of
1181 Praise|               black into white,” blow hot and cold with the same breath,
1182 Praise|            horns and the yelps of the hounds, and I believe could pick
1183 Praise|              measured purgatory by an hourglass, and can without the least
1184 Praise|           Sleep. These, I say, are my household servants, and by their faithful
1185 Praise|              beyond their building of houses? What philosopher ever founded
1186 Praise|               but set all things in a hubbub!~In fine, I am so necessary
1187 Praise|         everyone; or old Pan with his hubbubs; or smutty Vulcan half covered
1188 Praise|             compassing when he wrote “Humano capiti,” etc.~But they have
1189 Praise|            barbarously; and when they humh and hawh so pitifully that
1190 Praise|              her in pureness of life, humility and love of heavenly things,
1191 Praise|            six hundred; as being ever hunger-starved and slovens in their schools—
1192 Praise|             his belly, to be the more hungry after it. Another thinks
1193 Praise|              in Christ and His vicars hurl with more fierceness against
1194 Praise|               it is! How many several hurly-burlies of fools! for I myself sometimes
1195 Praise|             neglect it and are wholly hurried away with the contemplation
1196 Praise|        carried whither they please to hurry him.~But forasmuch as such
1197 Praise|              of little effect, if not hurtful, unless that which is spiritual
1198 Praise|               they have against their husbands. And now, I conceive me,
1199 Praise|      Intemperance, the other Eegretos hypnos, Dead Sleep. These, I say,
1200 Pref  |               country, the 5th of the Ides of June.~
1201 Praise|               we commonly call fools, idiots, lack-wits, and dolts; splendid
1202 Praise|             of these but blockish and idle—as ’tis a lesser crime to
1203 Praise|            happiness but in sleep and idleness. Another turmoils himself
1204 Praise|              If a man have a crooked, ill-favored wife, who yet in his eye
1205 Praise|          everything? But yet being so ill-furnished with the gifts of the mind,
1206 Praise|           some part or other of their ill-gotten goods is wont to fall to
1207 Praise|              as Jupiter that sour and ill-looked Pallas; but of that lovely
1208 Praise|      beautiful? Or if seeing an ugly, ill-pointed piece, he should admire
1209 Praise|            well himself, so he did as illogically divide and define it to
1210 Praise|               worthy of our great and illuminated divines, as the world calls
1211 Praise|           those magnificent titles of illustrious doctors, subtle doctors,
1212 Praise|            require statues or painted images, which do often obstruct
1213 Praise|                poisons, and all force imaginable? so great a profit would
1214 Praise|           their skin soft, as if they imitated a certain kind of perpetual
1215 Praise|              on the earth, all things immediately get a new face, new color,
1216 Praise|             man Chiron, being offered immortality, chose rather to die than
1217 Praise|             fear some or other should impeach me of theft as if I had
1218 Praise|           thieves, got off himself by impeaching his fellows. Another escaped
1219 Praise|           none are born without their imperfections, and happy is he that is
1220 Praise|             the same person one while impersonating a woman, and another while
1221 Praise|              muzzle, another with his impertinencies, he makes sport for the
1222 Praise|               anything more boldly or impertinently than I ought, be pleased
1223 Praise|            and count it the height of impiety to speak so irreverently
1224 Praise|           more religious than with an impious curiosity to dive into the
1225 Praise|          comparison, and to that too, implacable; lest setting them about
1226 Praise|        prayers invented by some pious imposter, either for his soul’s health
1227 Praise|               lands, cities, tribute, imposts, riches; for which, being
1228 Praise|              than a parent to us, has imprinted that evil in men, especially
1229 Praise|             upon another, as poverty, imprisonment, infamy, dishonesty, racks,
1230 Praise|              from whence they are not improperly called twice children. Which,
1231 Praise|              and this they do by mere impulse of nature. And in the next
1232 Praise|               strange when Saint Paul imputes a kind of folly even to
1233 Praise|                toying, forgetfulness, inadvertency, and briefly, all other
1234 Praise|              For why should I require incense, wafers, a goat, or sow
1235 Praise|           virtue as it were spurs and incentives, nay and encouragers to
1236 Praise|      dishonest love, or parricide, or incest, or sacrilege, or the like
1237 Praise|              sometimes gone away many inches fatter, to see them speak
1238 Praise|        resting in the work done. They incite us to charity, and yet make
1239 Praise|           among themselves and so are incomprehensible touching every particular.
1240 Praise|           things. They think truth is inconsistent with flattery, but that
1241 Praise|             but first truly weigh the inconvenience of the thing? Or what woman
1242 Praise|          least mention of delible and indelible characters. They worshiped, ’
1243 Praise|           himself by my face the true index of my mind? I am no counterfeit,
1244 Praise|           understanding there is much indignation.” And does he not plainly
1245 Praise|              through any distemper or indisposition of the organs, then, by
1246 Praise|              utter before you meet my induction with a suitable answer,
1247 Praise|               praise of fortitude and industry, what think you if I do
1248 Praise|              not only right but of an inestimable price; and what difference,
1249 Praise|          eclipses, and other the like inexplicable matters; and all this too
1250 Praise|             who knows not but a man’s infancy is the merriest part of
1251 Praise|              happens, they come to be infected with wisdom, so hard a thing
1252 Praise|          somewhat at liberty from the infection of the body, begins to put
1253 Praise|              devote themselves to the infernal gods, or Q. Curtius to leap
1254 Praise|               mankind by his harmless influence, or like a fatal comet to
1255 Praise|          looks were not sufficient to inform you who I am? Or as if any
1256 Praise|            difference between charity infused and charity wrought in us
1257 Praise|            any man ever saw? But more ingeniously does Jeremiah in his tenth
1258 Praise|           stage-players that are such ingrateful dissemblers of the courtesies
1259 Praise|               if it were their own by inheritance. There are others too that
1260 Praise|               beg their bread.~A most inhuman and economical thing, and
1261 Praise|               World, God, gave man an injunction against his eating of the
1262 Praise|             natural instinct of their innocence no doubt, pass by their
1263 Praise|              advocate. One is all for innovations and another for some great
1264 Praise|        straightly charged them not to inquire after times and seasons,
1265 Praise|              condition. And as to the inquiry of what was beyond heaven,
1266 Praise|              the desire of war, or an insatiate thirst after gold, or some
1267 Praise|       continual and restless thoughts insensibly prey upon their spirits
1268 Praise|             truth is no other than an inseparable conjunction of life. Good
1269 Praise|           noisome. In short, view the inside of these Sileni, and you’
1270 Praise|           only thing they should have insisted on. And fourthly, as it
1271 Praise|             each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that
1272 Praise|                of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities,
1273 Praise|               against such as, by the instigation of the devil, attempt to
1274 Praise|              are so born, so bred, so instructed, nay such is the common
1275 Praise|        repented himself of his former instructions: or as forgetting that he
1276 Praise|            and cherish them as proper instruments of profit; whereas if some
1277 Praise|            Which also were altogether insupportable did not I pity its condition,
1278 Praise|             from the body, as memory, intellect, and the will. And therefore
1279 Praise|               them, the one is Komos, Intemperance, the other Eegretos hypnos,
1280 Praise|            for the encounter, Christ, intending to take out of his disciples’
1281 Praise|              man whoever he be, if he intends to have children, must have
1282 Praise|          unless all of them had their interchangeable failings, one while flattering,
1283 Praise|              are bountiful enough: as interdictions, hangings, heavy burdens,
1284 Praise|              public, not his private, interest; study nothing but the common
1285 Praise|            man is nothing else but an interlude of folly? In which he has
1286 Praise|               people, troublesome; to interpret the Scripture, pedantic;
1287 Praise|           life. And so does this deep interpreter of the divine meaning bring
1288 Praise|               to God? For by the moon interpreters understand human nature,
1289 Praise|             corpse were not honorably interred; so curious are they herein,
1290 Praise|              of speaking. But Christ, interrupting them in their vanities,
1291 Praise|          strange if after so long and intimate an acquaintance and converse
1292 Praise|               like? They thought that introduction faulty that was wide of
1293 Praise|               or ship into which they intrude not, to the no small damage
1294 Praise|              heads, how many troubles invade us, and how little there
1295 Praise|         bickerings, what taunts, what invectives! If I lie, let me have the
1296 Praise|              are every day so busy in inventing new, that a thousand Democriti
1297 Praise|              obstinate Occamists, and invincible Albertists to war against
1298 Praise|              the rest of the gods are invited, I am passed by or not admitted
1299 Praise|          spirit that pierces the most inward parts, and so cuts off as
1300 Praise|      blacksmith, begot in the sad and irksome bonds of matrimony. Yet,
1301 Praise|          slide away without the least irksomeness. Nay, I have sometimes gone
1302 Praise|           there be any drawer in your iron chests more private than
1303 Praise|            with which holy men are at irreconcilable enmity, and contrary, the
1304 Praise|       proposition is scandalous; this irreverent; this has a smack of heresy;
1305 Praise|         height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such hidden things, rather
1306 Praise|              desire to change with an Italian, a Thracian with an Athenian,
1307 Praise|            knowledge of divinity. The Italians affirm they are the only
1308 Pref  |            coming awhile since out of Italy for England, that I might
1309 Praise|               those that have such an itch of building; one while changing
1310 Praise|             more do they tickle their itching ears. And these serve not
1311 Praise|          these Williamites, and those Jacobines; as if it were not worth
1312 Praise|               or in pilgrimage to St. James’s where he has no business.
1313 Praise|              Chaos, Orcus, Saturn, or Japhet, nor any of those threadbare,
1314 Praise|             to it, sets out a pitiful jay in other’s feathers, washes
1315 Praise|              as much as in the Jews’ “Jehovah;” and therefore they reckon
1316 Praise|               other mischiefs he’s in jeopardy of, that that True King
1317 Praise|          children at home and goes to Jerusalem, Rome, or in pilgrimage
1318 Praise|             entertain themselves with jesters, fools, gambols, and horse
1319 Praise|        hammers, the nymphs with their jigs, and satyrs with their antics;
1320 Praise|              lamb; according to Saint John, “Behold the Lamb of God!”
1321 Praise|             will say, you may as well join fire and water. It may be
1322 Praise|              with mirth, fancies, and jollities, and that too without any
1323 Praise|            Foolishness,” says he, “is joy to the fool,” thereby plainly
1324 Praise|         Apollo, though not so wisely, judged “the wisest of all men living,”
1325 Praise|              among prelates, princes, judges, magistrates, friends, enemies,
1326 Praise|             like in their subtlety in judging; for who would think he
1327 Praise|              peace, empire, counsels, judgments, assemblies, wedlocks, bargains,
1328 Praise|           bone. And now tell me, what juggler or mountebank you had rather
1329 Praise|               are wont to prick up to jugglers, fools, and buffoons, and
1330 Praise|              that have that wonderful juice with which Memnon’s daughter
1331 Pref  |                the 5th of the Ides of June.~
1332 Praise|               stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless
1333 Praise|              Cyprus, Venus; at Argos, Juno; at Athens, Minerva; in
1334 Praise|    soldier-like they bustle about the jus divinum of titles, and how
1335 Pref  |               I, after the example of Juvenal, raked up that forgotten
1336 Praise|       determine how he could have the key of knowledge that had no
1337 Praise|           divines? Peter received the keys, and from Him too that would
1338 Praise|              friends, you have rather killed than preserved me in thus
1339 Praise|             willingly acknowledge the kindnesses I have done them, yet even
1340 Praise|              that miserable slavery a kingdom, and such too as they would
1341 Praise|               the government of their kingdoms to their grand ministers,
1342 Praise|            folly? What is it when one kisses his mistress’ freckle neck,
1343 Praise|              dove, not of an eagle or kite. Add to this that in Scripture
1344 Praise|              with noise! And yet this knack of theirs is no less a mystery
1345 Praise|              his hat off, on his bare knees, and a couteau for that
1346 Praise|           purpose (for every sword or knife is not allowable), with
1347 Praise|          point is held in by the same knot, we’ll suppose it a perfect
1348 Praise|              justly deserved gout has knotted their knuckles, to hire
1349 Praise|               beating their brains on knotty subjects, and for the most
1350 Praise|             Father says openly, “Thou knowest my foolishness.” Nor is
1351 Praise|             by itself.~And first, who knows not but a man’s infancy
1352 Praise|       deserved gout has knotted their knuckles, to hire a caster, or one
1353 Praise|           anon clapping her hands, is Kolakia, Flattery; she that looks
1354 Praise|             see with them, the one is Komos, Intemperance, the other
1355 Praise|             have learned the cringe à la mode, know when and where
1356 Praise|               wrong. This man is ever laboring for public honors, and another
1357 Praise|         willingly leave it and live a laborious, careful life, such as was
1358 Praise|               their happy souls might lack room to walk in, entertain
1359 Praise|              words; while each of the ladies believes herself so much
1360 Praise|          quarterstaffs, and bombards; lading them also with bag and baggage,
1361 Praise|            another Sthenelus, a third Laertes, a fourth Polycrates, a
1362 Praise|              that all her virtue were lame and fruitless without the
1363 Praise|          furnished at all points with lances, slings, quarterstaffs,
1364 Praise|               they call his patrimony lands, cities, tribute, imposts,
1365 Praise|              life both delightful and lasting, that neither would the
1366 Praise|             covered with skins? I was lately myself at a theological
1367 Praise|               many arts, a Grecian, a Latinist, a mathematician, a philosopher,
1368 Praise|           furniture into a ridiculous laughingstock.~And as to the court lords,
1369 Praise|              than folly.~But why do I launch out into this ocean of superstitions?
1370 Praise|          second place is given to our law-drivers, if not the first, whose
1371 Praise|            proverb that says, “He may lawfully praise himself that lives
1372 Praise|         rhetoric, where there were no lawsuits? Or to what purpose laws,
1373 Praise|              myself only, or that the lawyers charge me that I have proved
1374 Praise|    superstition and certain postures, lays open the several parts in
1375 Praise|       clutched together is Misoponia, Laziness; she with the garland on
1376 Praise|        contrary he whom he favors may lead Jupiter and his thunder
1377 Praise|       assemblies, wedlocks, bargains, leagues, laws, arts, all things
1378 Praise|               Oblivion; she that sits leaning on both elbows with her
1379 Praise|         others; broken with paleness, leanness, crassness, sore eyes, and
1380 Praise|             when there is no one that leans not too much to other way,
1381 Praise|              the dice but their heart leaps and dances again. And then
1382 Praise|              is much otherwise we may learn from the examples of true
1383 Praise|             manner gods if like horse leeches they can but appear to be
1384 Praise|          afford them? What tricks and legerdemains with which Mercury does
1385 Praise|         merciless tigers, and furious leopards. For that flattery is the
1386 Praise|               concerning his sister’s leprosy, “I beseech thee, my Lord,
1387 Praise|              of the devil, attempt to lessen or rob them of Peter’s patrimony.
1388 Praise|                unless there be also a lessening of his depraved affections:
1389 Praise|           blockish and idle—as ’tis a lesser crime to kill a thousand
1390 Praise|              another has contracted a lethargy by his solitary living;
1391 Praise|               And like lips find like lettuce; nay, the more foolish anything
1392 Praise|              and have their mercenary Levite come to their bedside, where
1393 Praise|             in continual warfare with lice and fleas. As therefore
1394 Pref  |             liberty does not run into licentiousness; which makes me the more
1395 Praise|            seeing his wife weeping he licks up her tears. But how much
1396 Pref  |            partly that these toys are lighter than may become a divine,
1397 Pref  |              would have them whom the lightness or foolery of the argument
1398 Praise|                lay down the causes of lightning, winds, eclipses, and other
1399 Praise|        princes of the Church and true lights of the world should be reduced
1400       | likely
1401 Praise|               him is it that everyone likes his own sweeter-kin best,
1402 Praise|            rest. Nor was I, like that limping blacksmith, begot in the
1403 Praise|       measures everything by an exact line, and forgives nothing; pleases
1404 Praise|      themselves. Thus have you had my lineage, education, and companions.~
1405 Praise|               another wears a cowl so lined with grease that the poorest
1406 Praise|             the accord of all virtues linked one to another; a crown
1407 Praise|           better converse with fierce lions, merciless tigers, and furious
1408 Praise|              out his plumes. And like lips find like lettuce; nay,
1409 Praise|            they dare boldly enter the lists against any man upon any
1410 Praise|             beauty does not fade, its liveliness decay, its pleasantness
1411 Praise|            tears, labors, reproaches, loathe life, and wish death above
1412 Praise|           then. Suppose a man in some lofty high tower, and that he
1413 Praise|            alliance to the crown, and logical subtleties. The French think
1414 Praise|   rhetoricians with their tedious and long-studied orations can hardly effect,
1415 Praise|          their crosier, but a careful looking after the flock committed
1416 Praise|         Another’s poison turning to a looseness proved his remedy rather
1417 Praise|            These purchase their great lordships, while in the meantime the
1418 Praise|              to move the affections a louder voice is requisite. Whereupon
1419 Praise|           squirrel? And yet what more loving to man? Unless, perhaps
1420 Praise|      interprets that mountain whereon Lucifer had fixed his habitation
1421 Praise|             that they take it for ill luck to meet one of them by chance,
1422 Praise|                what noble, base; what lucky, unfortunate; what friendly,
1423 Praise|              notwithstanding whatever Lucretius has said, would not deny
1424 Praise|            whereas before, you sat as lumpish and pensive as if you had
1425 Praise|            your hands, live and drink lustily, my most excellent disciples
1426 Praise|               many perjuries, so many lusts, so many debaucheries, so
1427 Praise|           what learned, a dunce; what lusty, feeble; what jocund, sad;
1428 Praise|              tail hair by hair? Or as Lycurgus his example of his two whelps?
1429 Praise|             some flattering orator or lying poet from whose mouth they
1430 Praise|             errors himself, but has a lynx’s eyes upon others; measures
1431 Praise|             me, I think they were the madder of the two, and had the
1432 Praise|          discovery of the follies and madnesses of the common people. I’
1433 Praise|               of stature and skill in magic.~And, not to instance in
1434 Praise|       fortunetellers, enchanters, and magicians, whom the Hebrews call in
1435 Praise|          while hedged in with so many magisterial definitions, conclusions,
1436 Praise|               at a harp,” discoursing magisterially and theologically on this
1437 Praise|             Your Grace, My Lord, Your Magnificence; in a word that they are
1438 Praise|               the people’s ears those magnificent titles of illustrious doctors,
1439 Praise|            arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity with such pithless
1440 Praise|              star by the tail of Ursa Major. They show you on every
1441 Praise|           ignorant people syllogisms, majors, minors, conclusions, corollaries,
1442 Praise|         Achilles’ was both bitter and malicious; and that of old men, as
1443 Praise|              fields neither daffodil, mallows, onions, beans, and such
1444 Praise|            great obstacle to the true management of business? What would
1445 Praise|         burden of life which the more manly age finds enough to do to
1446 Praise|             bovinator for a wrangler, manticulator for a cutpurse—or dig up
1447 Praise|               rue, angelica, bugloss, marjoram, trefoils, roses, violets,
1448 Praise|             they are quite beside the mark that place the happiness
1449 Praise|              and order himself as the market goes,” but forgetting that
1450 Praise|           have a brazen statue in the marketplace? Add to this the adoption
1451 Praise|               purple, and those other marks of virtue and wisdom; but
1452 Praise|                Whoop holiday! how few marriages should we have, if the husband
1453 Praise|    outrageously he loves her. Another marries a woman’s money, not herself.
1454 Praise|              one foot in the grave to marry a plump young wench, and
1455 Praise|        bestows not empire on all men. Mars oftentimes favors neither
1456 Praise|           love Him.” And this is that Mary’s better part which is not
1457 Praise|            means the roughness of the masculine temper is seasoned and sweetened
1458 Praise|           bring profit, especially to mass priests and pardoners. And
1459 Praise|             the more by how much more massive is the chain he swags on
1460 Praise|            profess yet that they have mastered all; nay, though they neither
1461 Praise|             this one, two as it were, masterless tyrants—anger, that possesses
1462 Praise|          think they should show their mastery. And here they bring in
1463 Praise|           both lines, and the ancient matches of their families, when
1464 Praise|          nowhere what was the formal, material, efficient, and final cause
1465 Praise|              more abstruse; for he so mathematically split the word Jesus into
1466 Praise|            and, as it were, a kind of mathematics, the least swerving from
1467 Praise|               where he chops over his matins before they are half up.
1468 Praise|               little, odd, ridiculous May-game came the supercilious philosophers,
1469 Praise|               differ nothing from the meanest cobbler, yet ’tis scarcely
1470       | meanwhile
1471 Praise|        counterfeit pardons; that have measured purgatory by an hourglass,
1472 Praise|              lynx’s eyes upon others; measures everything by an exact line,
1473 Praise|            others, as lust, desire of meat and sleep, anger, pride,
1474 Praise|         Hebrews call in their tongue “Mecaschephim,” witches or sorcerers:
1475 Praise|              or if they are forced to meddle with any of these things,
1476 Praise|              make so great a buzz, he meddled not with anything that concerned
1477 Praise|               man should abstain from meddling with public business; unless
1478 Praise|               be packing and seek out Medeas, Circes, Venuses, Auroras,
1479 Praise|              middle, and end (summum, medium, et ultimum) of all. Nay,
1480 Praise|             resist evil; for that the meek in spirit, not the proud,
1481 Praise|            Christ taught pressed only meekness, suffering, and contempt
1482 Praise|             belly and the rest of the members. And as good success had
1483 Praise|            wonderful juice with which Memnon’s daughter prolonged the
1484 Praise|               In short, if a man like Menippus of old could look down from
1485 Praise|               proverb I have so often mentioned, “an ass at a harp,” discoursing
1486 Praise|              till noon and have their mercenary Levite come to their bedside,
1487 Praise|           converse with fierce lions, merciless tigers, and furious leopards.
1488 Praise|              their multitudes of laws merely contrived for their own
1489 Praise|            poor a reward for so great merit, little dreaming that the
1490 Praise|            but a man’s infancy is the merriest part of life to himself,
1491 Praise|               please themselves, live merrily, swim in pleasure, and in
1492 Praise|               entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter? But of these
1493 Praise|            this day the coming of the Messiah, and so obstinately contend
1494 Praise|               they receive by me, the metamorphoses of the gods, of whom I shall
1495 Praise|              dying with some pleasant metamorphosis, help their decrepitness
1496 Praise|             must owe it to folly.~But methinks I hear the philosophers
1497 Praise|            more subtle by the several methods of so many Schoolmen, that
1498 Pref  |               the battle of frogs and mice; Virgil, with the gnat and
1499 Praise|              The tents of the land of Midian shall tremble,” drew this
1500 Praise|              their tongue. Yet in the midst of all their prosperity,
1501 Praise|               he was beholding to the midwifery of Vulcan’s axe. And therefore
1502 Praise|           that it be done with a good mien—unless this my friend and