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1503 Praise|             weakness of body, love of mild, broken speech, chatting,
1504 Praise|            approve the example of the Milesian virgins and kill himself?
1505 Praise|             their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies,
1506 Praise|               comes last in place, as mindful, no doubt, whatever they
1507 Praise|               Argos, Juno; at Athens, Minerva; in Olympus, Jupiter; at
1508 Praise|             he calls himself, bid us “mingle our purposes with folly;”
1509 Praise|               that her sacrifices are mingled with human blood. Then do
1510 Praise|           Colletes, some Minors, some Minims, some Crossed; and again,
1511 Praise|             whelps? To say nothing of Minos and Numa, both which ruled
1512 Praise|           years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, as it were
1513 Praise|               to say nothing of those mischievous gods, Plutoes, Ates, punishments,
1514 Praise|            hands clutched together is Misoponia, Laziness; she with the
1515 Praise|               I am? Or as if any man, mistaking me for wisdom, could not
1516 Praise|            overcharge the Roman See—I mistook, I meant honor —might beg
1517 Praise|             is it when one kisses his mistress’ freckle neck, another the
1518 Praise|        delivered the church from such mists of error, which yet no one
1519 Praise|              is meant by their forked miters, whose each point is held
1520 Praise|          blessing of heaven, if it be mixed with affectation? What youth,
1521 Praise|               be anything without its mixture and, as it were, seasoning
1522 Praise|               treacherous persons and mockers have run the credulous into
1523 Praise|               learned the cringe à la mode, know when and where to
1524 Pref  |          wholly avoided it, I have so moderated my style that the understanding
1525 Praise|              and dry up their radical moisture? Whereas, on the contrary,
1526 Praise|             himself rich in taking up moneys and changing securities,
1527 Praise|               men “born in the fourth month;” and again, “He rides Sejanus’
1528 Praise|             the ruins of some ancient monument with the letters half eaten
1529 Praise|              tricks his pretty little mop of modesty has played before
1530 Praise|           wealth whom the Greeks call Moria, the Latins Stultitia, and
1531 Praise|          Thales, we’ll even call them morosophous, wise fools.~Nor will it
1532 Praise|               since in truth they are morotatoi, fools, and yet would appear
1533 Praise|              Nor since that dares any mortal give him harbor, though
1534 Praise|             discourse in strain above mortality as if they were inspired.
1535 Praise|              my breath in speaking of mortals? View heaven round, and
1536 Praise|            name of his was changed to Morychus, for that sitting before
1537 Praise|               some ends of Greek like mosaic work, though altogether
1538 Praise|                Another weeps over his mother-in-law’s grave. Another spends
1539 Praise|           that to their boys’ foolish mothers and dolt-headed fathers
1540 Praise|             ever attempted without my motion, or art brought to perfection
1541 Praise|               dimension of stars, the motions, effects, and hidden causes
1542 Praise|              tell me, what juggler or mountebank you had rather behold than
1543 Praise|              Argos. Another becomes a mourner, and how foolishly he carries
1544 Praise|            how many torches, how many mourners, how many singers, how many
1545 Praise|          otherwise would speak like a mouse in a cheese start out of
1546 Praise|             learned somewhere that to move the affections a louder
1547 Praise|               affections, and no more moved with love or pity than if
1548 Praise|              with those staring eyes, moving here and there, is Anoia,
1549 Praise|            pardons; such horses, such mules, such guards, and so much
1550 Praise|             many secretaries, so many muleteers, so many grooms, so many
1551 Praise|            offices if they but anyhow mumble over a few odd prayers,
1552 Praise|             of their graves, and ever mumbling in their mouths, “Life is
1553 Praise|               forced expositions, and murder him by the evil example
1554 Praise|               not such as thieves and murderers go up and down with, but
1555 Praise|             many contentions, so many murders, so many deceits, so many
1556 Praise|            still with his action, the musician with all his division will
1557 Praise|              little children, lilies, mustard-seed, and sparrows, things senseless
1558 Praise|              any of those threadbare, musty gods were my father, but
1559 Praise|           have destroyed all by their mutiny, reduced them to obedience?
1560 Praise|            wondered, and some of them muttered that of Horace, “What does
1561 Praise|             another with his smutched muzzle, another with his impertinencies,
1562 Praise|            another reckon you so many myriads of fasts, and fetch them
1563 Pref  |             the lives of men, without naming anyone in particular, whither,
1564 Praise|              they bring in instead of narration some texts of Scripture,
1565 Praise|               words of Aristophanes, “Nasty, crumpled, miserable, shriveled,
1566 Praise|             Divines are half starved, naturalists out of heart, astrologers
1567 Praise|               in his own nostrils, be nauseated with his own actions, and
1568 Praise|              new kind of divines, had needed to have prayed in aid of
1569 Praise|          corners; that they live such neglected, unknown, and hated lives:
1570 Praise|            disarm his ministers, that neglecting not only shoes and scrip
1571 Praise|              other men’s business and neglects his own. Another thinks
1572 Praise|          ingratitude, shall I say, or negligence of men who, notwithstanding
1573 Praise|            gods drunk with nectar and nepenthe; whereas before, you sat
1574 Praise|                is now and then called nepios, fool: and by the same name,
1575 Praise|        himself handsomer than Homer’s Nereus. Another, as soon as he
1576 Praise|              least drunken Antony; so Nero, Seneca; and Dionysius,
1577 Praise|               as, according to Homer, Nestor’s discourse was pleasanter
1578 Praise|             that you have so many old Nestors everywhere that have scarce
1579 Praise|       Chaldean superstition and Greek newfangledness, that had little to do,
1580 Praise|            that they may grow up to a newness of life and be one with
1581 Praise|           such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them so arrogantly
1582 Praise|             their rise from the river Nilus; or to set out the mystery
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1584 Praise|             to this some little sweet’nings that whatever happens, they
1585 Praise|          there wanted little but that Niobe-like they had been turned to
1586 Praise|           trails after her; while one nobleman edges out another, that
1587 Praise|               general practice of our nobles and wise men who, throwing
1588 Praise|            enemy; and what healthful, noisome. In short, view the inside
1589 Praise|        entanglements of the realists, nominalists, Thomists, Albertists, Occamists,
1590 Praise|             from the coherence of the nominative case and the verb, and the
1591 Praise|           than I can. They sleep till noon and have their mercenary
1592 Praise|               Mother, and that too at noonday when there’s no need of
1593 Praise|          would submit his neck to the noose of wedlock, if, as wise
1594 Praise|             he would stink in his own nostrils, be nauseated with his own
1595 Praise|               copying clerks, so many notaries, so many advocates, so many
1596 Praise|              say nothing of Minos and Numa, both which ruled their
1597 Praise|             into as endless a work as numbering the sands—for what offenses
1598 Praise|         excuse of folly. So Aaron, in Numbers, if I mistake not the book,
1599 Praise|           great Jupiter the goat, his nurse, forasmuch as I was suckled
1600 Praise|           care and diligence of their nurses? And then for youth, which
1601 Pref  |              puddings; Ovid, with the nut; when Polycrates and his
1602 Praise|            Pallas; but of that lovely nymph called Youth, the most beautiful
1603 Praise|             it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities
1604 Praise|          master’s brazen helmet is an oath for a prince. Or what should
1605 Praise|               mutiny, reduced them to obedience? Was it a philosophical
1606 Praise|         better know how to command or obey fools; and who though he
1607 Praise|          himself? To make himself the object of his own admiration? And
1608 Praise|            from visible and corporeal objects, than which death does no
1609 Praise|               in baptism had lost its obligation. Again, the priests that
1610 Praise|          opinion. For so great is the obscurity and variety of human affairs
1611 Praise|             children, as one has well observed, were more like their mother
1612 Praise|            since they are so diligent observers of me that they are commonly
1613 Praise|             dozen of the most old and obsolete to confound their reader,
1614 Praise|        confess that wisdom is a great obstacle to the true management of
1615 Praise|                For there are two main obstacles to the knowledge of things,
1616 Praise|              but a more than womanish obstinacy of scolding: but I’ll imitate
1617 Praise|              their new inventions and occult arts undertake to change
1618 Praise|             do I launch out into this ocean of superstitions? Had I
1619 Praise|           actions, and himself become odious to himself; forasmuch as
1620 Praise|            that he contract a popular odium, to wit, by reason of the
1621 Praise|          numbering the sands—for what offenses mankind have deserved these
1622 Praise|             of hellebore, that should offer to look upon so pleasant
1623 Praise|           that wise man Chiron, being offered immortality, chose rather
1624 Praise|               little. Among all those offerings which are so frequently
1625 Praise|              passions do not only the office of a tutor to such as are
1626 Praise|           magistrates and subordinate officers; that, though he is but
1627 Praise|               you take away pleasure? Oh! Do you like what I say?
1628 Praise|             men have by mistake drunk oil for wine. Again, in the
1629 Praise|               and “matula putet,” or “ollae fervere” and “ollam fervere”
1630 Praise|               or “ollae fervere” and “ollam fervere” were not both good
1631 Praise|                at Athens, Minerva; in Olympus, Jupiter; at Tarentum, Neptune;
1632 Praise|               this point that such an omission may chance to spoil a man’
1633 Praise|                Nor perhaps ought I to omit this other argument, that
1634 Praise|         sacrifice if some ceremony be omitted. Nor do I beat heaven and
1635 Praise|       agreement with Christ; and yet, omitting all the other, they make
1636 Praise|             fellow, nay or so much as one-quarter of a wise man, among them
1637 Praise|            only some few of the great ones, from whence we shall easily
1638 Praise|            neither daffodil, mallows, onions, beans, and such contemptible
1639 Praise|              farther than himself and opens a gap to many men’s ruin.
1640 Praise|           down with noise, though the opponent were another Stentor.~And
1641 Praise|                though those very few, opposed, they cut off the dispute,
1642 Praise|              babes is fools, which he opposes to the word wise men. To
1643 Praise|               I hear the philosophers opposing it and saying ’tis a miserable
1644 Praise|             nearer to virtue than its opposite, austerity, or a morose
1645 Praise|              frame in their fancy new orbs, adding to those we have
1646 Praise|        country of ideas, or Tantalus’ orchards. For who would not shun
1647 Praise|              neither the first Chaos, Orcus, Saturn, or Japhet, nor
1648 Praise|              by this, that the one is ordered by them, the other by reason;
1649 Praise|               house. And yet he often orders a different dress, and makes
1650 Praise|            believe the gods more than ordinarily pleased with their braying.
1651 Praise|               yet I must confess that origin upon the place denies that
1652 Praise|              signified by Amphion and Orpheus’ harp. What was it that,
1653 Praise|              of orators, made for the ostentation of wit; for these, as you
1654 Praise|            would say, “scarce half an ounce to a pound.” Besides, he
1655 Praise|             the worst of them able to outchat a hundred of the best picked
1656 Praise|            befits beasts than men, so outrageous that the very poets feigned
1657 Praise|              she slights him the more outrageously he loves her. Another marries
1658 Praise|           undertake endless suits and outvie one another who shall most
1659 Praise|             love of God? Or what that outward, whose loose plaits and
1660 Praise|          persons they thought to have over-caught. But the most foolish and
1661 Praise|             abstinence from pleasure, over-hasty old age, untimely death,
1662 Praise|               eye upon those that are over-wise, and consequently hate them—
1663 Praise|            vast multitude of men that overcharge the Roman See—I mistook,
1664 Praise|               studies, so many slips, oversights, and chances of human life,
1665 Praise|         vindicated its liberty, quite overthrew it. Add to this the Bruti,
1666 Praise|             Magister,” he has at once overturned the whole body of divinity.~
1667 Pref  |        written; though yet, unless an overweening opinion of myself may have
1668 Pref  |           with the gnat and puddings; Ovid, with the nut; when Polycrates
1669 Praise|           were asleep;” and that “The owl flies;” whereas these others
1670 Praise|      fig-tree-god Priapus hearing his owner read certain Greek words
1671 Praise|             the foolish world then be packing and seek out Medeas, Circes,
1672 Praise|               and in the top of every page have three hard words read,
1673 Praise|             his Muses ridiculous, the painter with his art contemptible,
1674 Praise|               of setting their faces, painting their eyebrows, and smoothing
1675 Praise|         unlearned there are different palates. Or what is it that their
1676 Praise|              yet, you good gods! what Palemon, what Donatus, do they not
1677 Praise|        hateful to others; broken with paleness, leanness, crassness, sore
1678 Praise|               living; and another the palsy in his tongue for want of
1679 Praise|              the smooth skin and full pampered body is Tryphe, Wantonness;
1680 Praise|             but managed by parasites, panders, thieves, cut-throats, plowmen,
1681 Pref  |           philosophy; another makes a panegyric to a prince; another encourages
1682 Praise|             which these holy minds so pantingly breathe, like to be? To
1683 Praise|              and preferred before the papal decretals; while, as censors
1684 Praise|              this with small waste of paper, as well knowing that the
1685 Praise|            heritage, and that without parables, not to cowls, odd prayers,
1686 Praise|               Stoics, which they call paradoxes, seem in comparison of these
1687 Praise|            philosophy, but managed by parasites, panders, thieves, cut-throats,
1688 Praise|              that her errors are only pardoned, those of wise men never.
1689 Praise|        especially to mass priests and pardoners. And next to these are they
1690 Praise|            own wit, no man of his own parentage, no man of his own house,
1691 Praise|         wisdom, Ulysses, “miserable;” Paris, Ajax, and Achilles nowhere.
1692 Praise|               only well-bred men. The Parisians, excluding all others, arrogate
1693 Praise|            familiar with him, is also partaker of his misery. For while
1694 Praise|         stripped of himself, he shall participate of somewhat ineffable from
1695 Praise|         trifles, especially when both parties are sure to lose more than
1696 Praise|              given us above five, not passing by any kind of grammar,
1697 Praise|           away with, of how much more passion than reason has Jupiter
1698 Praise|           abuses of other men, wanton pastimes, and the like.~Again, take
1699 Pref  |           long study and great pains, patches many pieces together on
1700 Praise|            and Jupiter himself, divum pater atque hominum rex, the father
1701 Praise|                will someone say. Have patience, and I’ll show you what
1702 Praise|              hand, to wit that famous patron, that being disturbed with
1703 Praise|             believing themselves very Pauls and Anthonies.~But I willingly
1704 Praise|               riches by war than live peaceably at home. And some there
1705 Praise|             modesty, spread out their peacock’s plumes and erect their
1706 Praise|               a king, and presently a peasant; now a god, and in a trice
1707 Praise|              of some that endeavor to peck out the crows’ eyes; that
1708 Praise|           that class of folly that is peculiarly mine, which in truth is
1709 Praise|              interpret the Scripture, pedantic; to pray, a sign one has
1710 Praise|           foolish that they are below pedantry. There remains yet the fifth
1711 Praise|             nobility. One derives his pedigree from Aeneas, another from
1712 Praise|              a morose and troublesome peevishness, as Horace calls it. This
1713 Praise|             but deserve himself to be pelted off with stones as a phantastical
1714 Praise|            mere sots, as debauched as Penelope’s wooers; you know the other
1715 Praise|            brags he has not touched a penny these three score years
1716 Praise|               of the heroes which the pens of so many eloquent men
1717 Praise|                you sat as lumpish and pensive as if you had come from
1718 Praise|             given them to refresh the pensiveness of life. Whence it is that
1719 Praise|             with crying; but straight perched up and smiled on my mother.
1720 Praise|             motion, or art brought to perfection without my help.~Is not
1721 Praise|               as the world in general performs me every day much better
1722 Praise|             spruceness, that stench a perfume, and that miserable slavery
1723 Praise|         seriously consider either the peril of child-bearing or the
1724 Praise|           were any difference between perishing and being another thing!
1725 Praise|            covers his baldness with a periwig; another gets a set of new
1726 Praise|               quite cleansed; so many perjuries, so many lusts, so many
1727 Praise|               moon, but a wise man is permanent as the sun,” what else did
1728 Pref  |         biting. This liberty was ever permitted to all men’s wits, to make
1729 Praise|              wash away by degrees the perplexity of their minds, and so wax
1730 Praise|              spoken of, despised, and persecuted, etc.,” and forbade them
1731 Praise|            interprets defense against persecution, and by the bag sufficient
1732 Praise|              he was a pleasant droll, persuaded her that they were not only
1733 Praise|         pleasure in life. To which is pertinent that other, “He that increases
1734 Praise|            sometimes war, other times pestilence, sweeps off many thousands
1735 Praise|               or am I subject to take pet, and require an expiatory
1736 Praise|         kindness for the pot than the petticoat and place their chiefest
1737 Praise|               they have done in their pettish humors but where they have
1738 Praise|              change their tyranny for Phalaris’ or Dionysius’ empire. Nor
1739 Praise|           pelted off with stones as a phantastical fool and one out of his
1740 Praise|             that Venus by whose favor Phaon became so young again that
1741 Praise|             proud cast of her eye, is Philantia, Self-love; she with the
1742 Praise|             find him in Aristophanes, philosophizing about clouds and ideas,
1743 Praise|             ancients, and from thence picks nothing but subtleties of
1744 Praise|              lived?); and such is the picture of this great wise man.~
1745 Praise|            every side the statues and pictures of their ancestors; run
1746 Praise|              sword of the spirit that pierces the most inward parts, and
1747 Praise|         proverbs, lest I seem to have pilfered my friend Erasmus’ adages.
1748 Praise|             to Jerusalem, Rome, or in pilgrimage to St. James’s where he
1749 Praise|            deaf with their noise, and pined away with stench and nastiness.
1750 Praise|         majesty of divinity with such pithless and sordid terms and opinions.
1751 Praise|            when they humh and hawh so pitifully that none but one of their
1752 Praise|            beloved madness; nor Plato placed the raptures of poets, prophets,
1753 Praise|            Phoebus sometimes shoots a plague among us. Neptune drowns
1754 Praise|             or sacrilege, or the like plagues, or when they terrify some
1755 Praise|             like to be. Nay, to speak plainer, he sets up a stony semblance
1756 Praise|             that outward, whose loose plaits and long train fall round
1757 Praise|             it is, either like a good planet to give life and safety
1758 Praise|          touch this fair but unsavory plant, as a kind of men that are
1759 Praise|               consider it, Nature has planted, not only in particular
1760 Praise|             still caterwauling, daily plastering their face, scarce ever
1761 Praise|             first, the Christians and Platonists do as good as agree in this,
1762 Praise|               And sometimes too, like Plautus’ old man, he returns to
1763 Praise|         foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and
1764 Praise|                Nestor’s discourse was pleasanter than honey, whereas Achilles’
1765 Praise|               have done it better, so plentiful are they in their new-found
1766 Praise|               it, they might the more plentifully enjoy it themselves. But
1767 Praise|              wealth, honor, pleasure, plenty, good health, long life,
1768 Praise|               all things grew without plowing or sowing; where neither
1769 Praise|        panders, thieves, cut-throats, plowmen, sots, spendthrifts, and
1770 Praise|           whereas the other strive to pluck them out of their mind:
1771 Praise|             in this, that the soul is plunged and fettered in the prison
1772 Praise|           ignorances, and that in the plural number, a number of multitude,
1773 Pref  |              Claudius’ canonizations; Plutarch, with his dialogue between
1774 Praise|               those mischievous gods, Plutoes, Ates, punishments, favors,
1775 Praise|              should admire an insipid poem as excellent would be presently
1776 Praise|         physic, and the only thing in poetry; ’tis the delight and relish
1777 Praise|       applauded by the common people, pointed at in a crowd, “This is
1778 Praise|            him to the drinking of his poisoned cup. For while, as you find
1779 Praise|               purchased, with swords, poisons, and all force imaginable?
1780 Praise|          empire, authority, religion, policy, and public actions are
1781 Praise|         define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity
1782 Praise|      expostulates with them, “Now, by Pollux, my friends, you have rather
1783 Praise|         guilty of, while one with his polt-foot, another with his smutched
1784 Praise|               see a wooden or painted Polypheme Christopher, they shall
1785 Praise|              with his country dances, Polyphemus footing time to his Cyclops
1786 Praise|           mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness
1787 Praise|             silence and not stir this pool or touch this fair but unsavory
1788 Praise|     impossible but that he contract a popular odium, to wit, by reason
1789 Praise|              more bristly than either porcupine or hedgehog, to leave his
1790 Praise|             as are making towards the port of wisdom, but are in every
1791 Praise|                and that too without a portion, is so common that men almost
1792 Praise|         bullbeef? Why is Cupid always portrayed like a boy, but because
1793 Praise|         myself, let them if they like possess to themselves those three
1794 Praise|        masterless tyrants—anger, that possesses the region of the heart,
1795 Praise|               if they had it not, and possessing as if they possessed it
1796 Praise|           enjoy it in common. And the possession of no good can be delightful
1797 Praise|               of clay and some better potter. But I, partly through ignorance,
1798 Praise|             scarce half an ounce to a pound.” Besides, he has confined
1799 Pref  |             thing that has been often practiced even by great authors: when
1800 Praise|             though yet those ordinary practices of our feasts, as choosing
1801 Praise|           very beggar; what infamous, praiseworthy; what learned, a dunce;
1802 Praise|        transubstantiation is, whereas prayer, by means of which it is,
1803 Praise|            how that gourd should have preached, wrought miracles, or been
1804 Praise|   rhetorically play the fool in their preachments, and yet most sweetly imitating
1805 Praise|               learned men think their preamble, for so they call it, then
1806 Praise|                among men he gives the precedency not to the learned or the
1807 Praise|              sue for honors or church preferments, an ass or wild ox shall
1808 Praise|               strength they have, and prepare for the encounter, Christ,
1809 Praise|          nothing is more foolish than preposterous wisdom, so nothing is more
1810 Praise|               truth there was nothing presented; yet in other things a man
1811 Praise|       courting old childless men with presents; and others again by making
1812 Praise|               provision of a scrip to preserve them from hunger. And when
1813 Praise|              which is more desirable, preserves it perpetual. And if you
1814 Praise|     friendship may more reasonably be presumed of matrimony, which in truth
1815 Praise|              could scarce stand, only presuming on this, that he had a company
1816 Praise|        wanting of this kind some that pretend to foretell things by the
1817 Praise|           done them and such impudent pretenders to religion which they haven’
1818 Praise|           examine how many tricks his pretty little mop of modesty has
1819 Praise|          restless thoughts insensibly prey upon their spirits and dry
1820 Praise|              make my way through such prickly quiddities, that I entreat
1821 Praise|            least admonish them that a priest should be free from all
1822 Praise|          sober? Why Venus ever in her prime, but because of her affinity
1823 Praise|         forehead, shake off his rigid principles, and for some time commit
1824 Praise|            for that reason the higher privileged from exceptions; and I am
1825 Praise|              friars, because they are privy to all men’s secrets by
1826 Praise|             their new-found words and prodigious terms. Besides, while they
1827 Praise|             look upon that child as a prodigy that should have as much
1828 Praise|              he cracks again; another produces more bundles of ceremonies
1829 Praise|          solicitously watchful in the production of gnats, herbs, and flowers
1830 Praise|            least degree of knowledge, profess yet that they have mastered
1831 Praise|               especially as it is now professed by most men, is nothing
1832 Praise|             lack-wits. And yet Christ professes to be the shepherd of this
1833 Praise|        different order, men otherwise professing apostolical charity, despise
1834 Praise|            Especially when a no small professor, whose name I wittingly
1835 Praise|              thing both necessary and profitable. “If anyone among ye,” says
1836 Praise|            benefit you receive in the progress of it is of my gift likewise.
1837 Praise|               which Memnon’s daughter prolonged the youth of her grandfather
1838 Praise|               many advocates, so many promoters, so many secretaries, so
1839 Praise|              servants at his elbow to prompt him the names; and to that
1840 Praise|            other, and the other again pronounces him more learned than Plato.
1841 Praise|             is to say, folly? For the proof of which the never sufficiently
1842 Praise|              s shield either beget or propagate mankind; but even he himself,
1843 Praise|            kind of men, as being more propense by nature to pleasure and
1844 Praise|            respective parts, till the property-man brings them back to the
1845 Praise|               exposition, that it was prophesied of the skin of Saint Bartholomew
1846 Praise|               to my rites and have me propitious to him. For how can it be
1847 Praise|          truly, if they had the least proportion of sound judgment, what
1848 Praise|             this alone, which we only proposed by way of example, but in
1849 Praise|               nothing to the gods and proposes him as an absolute pattern
1850 Praise|             conclusions, corollaries, propositions explicit and implicit, they
1851 Praise|             of heaven that has better prospect than other and thence look
1852 Praise|             in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect
1853 Praise|        special manner to attend their protectors, to examine what strength
1854 Praise|             comparison of hunting and protest they take an unimaginable
1855 Praise|              the further threading of proverbs, lest I seem to have pilfered
1856 Praise|            that it owes not to me. So provident has that great parent of
1857 Praise|        children; Nature, it seems, so providently ordering it, lest this mischief
1858 Praise|              also makes that mystical Psalmist, though I remembered it
1859 Praise|               up to my party, are yet publicly ashamed of the name, as
1860 Pref  |             Virgil, with the gnat and puddings; Ovid, with the nut; when
1861 Praise|              St. Paul disallows it as puffing up and destructive; whence
1862 Praise|              his ridiculous emblem of pulling off a horse’s tail hair
1863 Praise|      mischievous gods, Plutoes, Ates, punishments, favors, and the like, not
1864 Praise|               study to imitate her in pureness of life, humility and love
1865 Praise|           pardons; that have measured purgatory by an hourglass, and can
1866 Praise|             into their heads. But the purity of the golden age declining
1867 Praise|           himself, bid us “mingle our purposes with folly;” and whereas
1868 Praise|             of draining the citizens’ purses and bringing it into their
1869 Praise|             of Christians, which they pursue with so much toil, is nothing
1870 Praise|            these two speeches “matula putes” and “matula putet,” or “
1871 Praise|             matula putes” and “matula putet,” or “ollae fervere” and “
1872 Praise|              studies for anything but puts in writing whatever he pleases
1873 Praise|              sufficiently praise that Pythagoras in a dunghill cock, who
1874 Praise|              There are also a kind of Pythagoreans with whom all things are
1875 Praise|              to the infernal gods, or Q. Curtius to leap into the
1876 Praise|              as with their triangles, quadrangles, circles, and the like mathematical
1877 Praise|               is, as being a discrete quantity, is transient; they would
1878 Praise|              swarm of flies and gnats quarreling among themselves, fighting,
1879 Praise|              for the most part end in quarrels, and therefore belongs rather
1880 Pref  |          Favorinus, deformity and the quartan ague; Synescius, baldness;
1881 Praise|           points with lances, slings, quarterstaffs, and bombards; lading them
1882 Praise|             quo” and the “terminus ad quem” of transubstantiation;
1883 Praise|               have so often condemned questions, disputes, genealogies,
1884 Praise|        laughter, as that sex was ever quick-witted, especially to color their
1885 Praise|          stupid whom such spurs can’t quicken? or who so quick-sighted
1886 Praise|         proper prayers, that he shall quickly be rich. Nay, they have
1887 Praise|        husband, and the house kept in quiet. A man is laughed at, when
1888 Praise|             well; the best way to get quit of sin is to add to the
1889 Praise|              touching the “terminus a quo” and the “terminus ad quem”
1890 Praise|              understanding the least “quodlibet” of the Scotists. But now,
1891 Praise|           popes. And lastly, all that rabble of the poets’ gods, with
1892 Praise|         thinks it a shame to lose the race, it often happens that he
1893 Praise|             care, and trouble. But in racking to gather money they truly
1894 Praise|     imprisonment, infamy, dishonesty, racks, snares, treachery, reproaches,
1895 Praise|              spirits and dry up their radical moisture? Whereas, on the
1896 Praise|              divinity, sits gnawing a radish and is in continual warfare
1897 Praise|            robes of a king put on the rags of a beggar. Thus are all
1898 Praise|             handsomely dissemble, and railed against it to the common
1899 Praise|               world with all food and raiment, as they say, should perish,
1900 Praise|               antagonist and think to raise themselves a fame by writing
1901 Praise|          broils, this little creature raises, and yet in how short a
1902 Pref  |               the example of Juvenal, raked up that forgotten sink of
1903 Praise|            set all going, and another rakes it together by right or
1904 Praise|             in the case, he should be ranged in that class of folly that
1905 Praise|             themselves into the first rank, and all because they have
1906 Praise|             Another spends all he can rap and run on his belly, to
1907 Praise|               those wise men touching rapine and usury. Again, if a man
1908 Praise|              or judge, out of so many rapines, parts with some small piece
1909 Praise|         madness; nor Plato placed the raptures of poets, prophets, and
1910 Praise|             up with care, such as are rare and precious, or such as
1911 Praise|              perhaps, as sometimes it rarely happens, they come to be
1912 Praise|            put woman, to wit, that of rational creatures or brutes, he
1913 Praise|           they can no sooner hear the rattling of the dice but their heart
1914 Praise|           with the body and is wholly ravished with things eternal, invisible,
1915 Praise|     reasonably pardon even me also, a raw, effeminate divine, if I
1916 Praise|             and uncut, and have three rays about the crown of the head.
1917 Praise|             an old wives’ story, they’re presently awake, prick up
1918 Praise|        heights which the vulgar can’t reach; for they say ’tis beneath
1919 Praise|             rule of honesty and honor reaches farther than himself and
1920 Praise|              the entanglements of the realists, nominalists, Thomists,
1921 Praise|               fools. And for the same reasons is it that women are so
1922 Praise|               praise one another with reciprocal epistles, verses, and encomiums;
1923 Praise|          rather more happy, who daily reciting those seven verses of the
1924 Praise|               study of grammar, fully reckoning himself a prince if he might
1925 Praise|         convinced by fire rather than reclaimed by argument; a crabbed old
1926 Praise|                what higher letters of recommendation have they to men than this
1927 Praise|             to whom also he carefully recommended folly but gave them a caution
1928 Praise|                by whose help he might recompense himself in understanding
1929 Praise|          sparing of her gifts she has recompensed it with the more of self-love;
1930 Praise|              new face, new color, and recover as it were a certain kind
1931 Praise|              breaking prison. Another recovered from his fever in spite
1932 Praise|                run through in a duel, recovers. Another, while the rest
1933 Praise|              one gives thanks for his recovery from folly; so sweet a thing
1934 Praise|            into the Elysian field, to recreate their pious and careless
1935 Praise|            that only she, whose deity recreates both gods and men, even
1936 Pref  |              every course of life its recreation, that study only should
1937 Praise|              of wax, they fashion and refashion it according to their pleasure;
1938 Praise|              in the harvest of money, refer all their apostolical work
1939 Pref  |               make their smart, witty reflections on the common errors of
1940 Praise|               been impossible to have reformed it by wisdom. Which also
1941 Praise|               gods have given them to refresh the pensiveness of life.
1942 Praise|         fainting, awakens the stupid, refreshes the sick, supplies the untractable,
1943 Praise|        recantation sermon, which if I refuse, they straight pronounce
1944 Praise|            altogether a fool, that he refused the appellation of wise,
1945 Praise|                blush; or in the least regard the sad scruples of those
1946 Praise|            will come when Christ, not regarding any of these trifles, will
1947 Praise|             anger, that possesses the region of the heart, and consequently
1948 Praise|             not my companion Flattery reigned in chief there, with whom
1949 Praise|                while they give up the reins to their governor and make
1950 Praise|            had decreed it, who said, “Reject him that is a heretic, after
1951 Praise|              divinity, and many times relating neither to earth nor heaven,
1952 Praise|               than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities,
1953 Praise|              that he might the better relieve this folly, being the wisdom
1954 Praise|           This supports the dejected, relieves the distressed, encourages
1955 Praise|            contrary, the others first rely wholly on God, the most
1956 Praise|               obtained to themselves; relying on this, that they conceive,
1957 Praise|           cares, studies, and for the remaining part of it never so much
1958 Praise|              the way, ’tis worth your remark that he intended me somewhat
1959 Praise|             linen rochet, is it not a remarkable and singular integrity of
1960 Praise|             to a looseness proved his remedy rather than death; and that
1961 Pref  |              other while to enjoy the remembrance of my friends, of whom I
1962 Praise|               things themselves, they remit it to others, thinking it
1963 Praise|             its troublesome cares but renders it more jocund. And this
1964 Praise|             sleep nor take any hearty repast.~But now by my courtesy
1965 Praise|            whatever appertains to the repelling of injuries, so under that
1966 Praise|               as he should have done, repented himself of his former instructions:
1967 Praise|              not ignorant what an ill report Folly has got, even among
1968 Praise|     dishonesty, infamy, villainy, ill reports carry no more hurt in them
1969 Praise|            instruct, exhort, comfort, reprehend, admonish, compose wars,
1970 Praise|               the sword to be bought, reprehends it a little after and commands
1971 Praise|               blotting out, revising, reprinting, showing it to friends,
1972 Praise|              hangings, heavy burdens, reproofs, anathemas, executions in
1973 Praise|     philosopher ever founded the like republic? Whereas the horse, that
1974 Praise|            those things that are most repugnant to these grosser senses,
1975 Praise|            pass by, a man of no small repute, who from those tents which
1976 Praise|             if there be anything that requires their pains, they leave
1977 Praise|          affections a louder voice is requisite. Whereupon they that otherwise
1978 Praise|            everyone bearing my lively resemblance in his face, how unwilling
1979 Pref  |           consequently exclaim that I resemble the ancient comedy, or another
1980 Praise|               this foolishness may be resembled to the uncertain judgment
1981 Praise|            that color of her hair, so resembling my father, from whence she
1982 Praise|               be, ’tis unpleasant and reserved, and that too but among
1983 Praise|            the more happy in how many respects the more he is mad; and
1984 Praise|              work working, and what a resting in the work done. They incite
1985 Praise|              that their continual and restless thoughts insensibly prey
1986 Praise|           that fountain that not only restores departed youth but, which
1987 Praise|               what other fountains of restoring youth. I am sure I am the
1988 Praise|             be man; whether after the Resurrection there will be any eating
1989 Praise|             indebted to me, that have retained so great a good and shut
1990 Praise|              the example of Timon, he retire into some desert and there
1991 Praise|             like Plautus’ old man, he returns to his three letters, A.
1992 Praise|          there is much mention in the Revelation. And what does all this
1993 Praise|            life in drinking, dancing, revels, and May games, not having
1994 Praise|           wasps, they’ll sufficiently revenge themselves in their public
1995 Praise|              so eagerly strives to be revenged of the enemy. Than which
1996 Praise|                the one that which the revengeful Furies send privily from
1997 Praise|             our philosophers, so much reverenced for their furred gowns and
1998 Praise|             putting in, blotting out, revising, reprinting, showing it
1999 Praise|              sworn Scotus himself was revived in him. He, being upon the
2000 Pref  |             chose rather one while to revolve with myself something of
2001 Praise|             divum pater atque hominum rex, the father of gods and
2002 Praise|            they call it, then chiefly rhetorical when it has least coherence
2003 Praise|          rather behold than hear them rhetorically play the fool in their preachments,