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2506 Praise|               being upon the point of unfolding the mystery of the name
2507 Praise|                if any man shall be so ungracious as to condemn, let him know ’
2508 Praise|         discover their master. A most ungrateful generation of men that,
2509 Praise|           chiefly do they disdain the unhallowed crowd as often as with their
2510 Praise|             letters, A.M.O., the most unhappy of all things living, if
2511 Praise|              and protest they take an unimaginable pleasure to hear the yell
2512 Praise|           they have discovered ideas, universalities, separated forms, first
2513 Praise|           they not come out with some university seal for it? And are they
2514 Praise|        delighted in those blunter and unlabored wits, in like manner Christ
2515 Praise|             to see a buck or the like unlaced? Let ordinary fellows cut
2516       | unlike
2517 Praise|       division; for I hold it equally unlucky to circumscribe her whose
2518 Praise|             at such a man, as at some unnatural accident or spirit? A man
2519 Praise|            diamond gods, what is more unprofitable than wisdom, or what is
2520 Praise|            when he sent them forth so unprovided for a journey that they
2521 Praise|       cherubin doctors, holy doctors, unquestionable doctors, and the like; and
2522 Praise|           pool or touch this fair but unsavory plant, as a kind of men
2523 Praise|              unadvised than a forward unseasonable prudence. And such is his
2524 Praise|         because his wisdom, forsooth, unseasonably disturbed their happiness.
2525 Praise|             what pains our youth; how unsupportable our old age, and grievous
2526 Praise|              emblem of justice and an untainted heart; and lastly, a purple
2527       | until
2528 Praise|         pleasure, over-hasty old age, untimely death, and the like; so
2529       | unto
2530 Praise|      refreshes the sick, supplies the untractable, joins loves together, and
2531 Praise|          resemblance in his face, how unwilling so ever he be to the contrary.
2532 Praise|           writing to the Corinthians, unwillingly acknowledge it; “I speak,”
2533 Praise|               men. For, if it was not unwisely said by somebody, that this
2534 Praise|             other excuse than that of unwittingness—because, says he, “they
2535 Praise|              put on a kind of new and unwonted pleasantness. So suddenly
2536 Praise|            trusted them with a person unworthy; yet whether he had understanding
2537 Praise|          rigidly religious that their upper garment is haircloth, their
2538 Praise|              a certain gentleness and uprightness of mind and comes nearer
2539 Praise|            accident, O Hercules! what uproars, what bickerings, what taunts,
2540 Praise|               the star by the tail of Ursa Major. They show you on
2541 Praise|        therefore, as long as the soul uses the organs of the body in
2542 Praise|              a carved Barbara, in the usual set form, that he shall
2543 Praise|       consulting an oracle. And as it usually happens when the sun begins
2544 Praise|             wife her husband, nor the usurer the borrower, nor a soldier
2545 Praise|               men touching rapine and usury. Again, if a man sue for
2546 Praise|               at last, reduced to the utmost poverty, there remains not
2547 Praise|              as well knowing that the vainer those trifles are, the higher
2548 Praise|           into the gulf, but an empty vainglory, a most bewitching siren?
2549 Praise|               praises of the gods and valiant men. And the like encomium
2550 Praise|               to be poor, base; to be vanquished, dishonorable and little
2551 Praise|     represented by it, which all men, vanquishing, abolishing, and, as it
2552 Praise|               himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.
2553 Praise|        followed their steps that they’ve almost got the start of
2554 Praise|            not what, of old Rome. The Venetians fancy themselves happy in
2555 Praise|              fool, in undertaking and venturing on the business of the world,
2556 Praise|               the floating Delos, nor Venus-like on the rolling sea, nor
2557 Praise|              seek out Medeas, Circes, Venuses, Auroras, and I know not
2558 Praise|               nominative case and the verb, and the adjective and substantive:
2559 Praise|               me one of them, nay the veriest bigot of the sect, and if
2560 Praise|               age afar off;” as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom
2561 Praise|                so much sweat, so much vexation and loss of sleep, the most
2562 Praise|               his mind so given up to vice, ’tis a shame how it enslaves
2563 Praise|               so much riches, so many victories, so many offices, so many
2564 Praise|               heathens, that they are vigilant enough to the harvest of
2565 Praise|            forth itself in its native vigor. And I conceive ’tis from
2566 Praise|           value and throw away what’s vile and of no worth, is it not
2567 Praise|       pleasant fellows, with all this vileness, ignorance, rudeness, and
2568 Praise|               but dishonesty, infamy, villainy, ill reports carry no more
2569 Praise|             all others. For he that’s violently in love lives not in his
2570 Praise|            marjoram, trefoils, roses, violets, lilies, and all the gardens
2571 Praise|               example of the Milesian virgins and kill himself? But who
2572 Praise|            his nature. But again, the virtuosi may say that there was particularly
2573 Praise|            were to be carried by most voices, what city would choose
2574 Praise|              Chrysippus’ nor Didymus’ volumes are large enough to contain
2575 Praise|             any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as
2576 Praise|             the Church, or that their vow in baptism had lost its
2577 Praise|                a fourth, for making a voyage prosperous; and a fifth,
2578 Praise|             call it heights which the vulgar can’t reach; for they say ’
2579 Praise|         follow those fat, fleshy, and vulgarly approved doctors, with whom,
2580 Praise|             should I require incense, wafers, a goat, or sow when all
2581 Praise|              but because he is a very wag and can neither do nor so
2582 Praise|               there is scarce an inn, wagon, or ship into which they
2583 Praise|            his tenth chapter, “A fool walking by the way, being a fool
2584 Praise|          another, snatching, playing, wantoning, growing up, falling, and
2585 Praise|              pampered body is Tryphe, Wantonness; and, as to the two gods
2586 Praise|            radish and is in continual warfare with lice and fleas. As
2587 Praise|             with glass and kept it as warily as if it had been a treasure?
2588 Praise|              reason he would call the warlike horse unfortunate, because
2589 Praise|           grant it; but this thing of warring is not part of philosophy,
2590 Praise|          reprehend, admonish, compose wars, resist wicked princes,
2591 Praise|             freckle neck, another the wart on her nose? When a father
2592 Praise|              long forgetfulness, they wash away by degrees the perplexity
2593 Praise|             anyone should anger these wasps, they’ll sufficiently revenge
2594 Praise|         diligently endeavor and set a watch over himself, lest perhaps
2595 Praise|              that was so solicitously watchful in the production of gnats,
2596 Praise|       infamous.~Theirs are only those weapons and sweet blessings which
2597 Praise|            life to death, without any weariness of the one, or sense of
2598 Praise|        another, and for the different wearing of a habit, or that ’tis
2599 Praise|           being sensible of the least wearisomeness of life. Of my gift it is,
2600 Praise|               upon his hands; another wears a cowl so lined with grease
2601 Praise|                judgments, assemblies, wedlocks, bargains, leagues, laws,
2602 Praise|              more ridiculous. Another weeps over his mother-in-law’s
2603 Praise|               clogged with its bodily weight, may be the more intent
2604 Praise|               as plump and round as a Westphalian hog, and never sensible
2605 Praise|             fellows cut up an ox or a wether, ’twere a crime to have
2606 Praise|             to pleasure and toys. And whatsoever they may happen to do with
2607 Praise|       Lycurgus his example of his two whelps? To say nothing of Minos
2608       | whenever
2609       | whereby
2610 Praise|              interprets that mountain whereon Lucifer had fixed his habitation
2611       | Whereupon
2612       | wherever
2613 Praise|      philosophical and supercelestial whims of Aristotle and the Schoolmen?~
2614 Praise|               with ferules, rods, and whips; and, laying about them
2615 Praise|         audience may in the meanwhile whisper to themselves, “What will
2616 Praise|    eavesdropping god or other take us whispering that which Momus only has
2617 Praise|           house to themselves. And to whomsoever he’s an enemy, ’tis not
2618 Praise|               retainers of mine also! Whoop holiday! how few marriages
2619 Praise|            notice of this, that he so willed the sword to be bought,
2620 Praise|               those Augustines; these Williamites, and those Jacobines; as
2621 Praise|     carelessly and much against their wills, having as if they had it
2622 Praise|         finger.~And now tell me if to wink, slip over, be blind at,
2623 Praise|            drawn on with the hopes of winning that they have made shipwreck
2624 Praise|          beams, or when after a sharp winter the spring breathes afresh
2625 Praise|              these kind of diversions wipe away tediousness, next cousin
2626 Praise|               presently stoop to such wire-drawn subtleties, unless he be
2627 Praise|              good Latin, unless their wisdoms had taught us the contrary?
2628 Praise|            not so wisely, judged “the wisest of all men living,” be witness;
2629 Praise|               Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.’ But every heretic
2630 Praise|              enemies succor, but this witchcraft of folly, which wise Nature
2631 Praise|          their tongue “Mecaschephim,” witches or sorcerers: for otherwise,
2632 Praise|         learning was not ordinary and withal satisfy some theological
2633 Praise|            are so hard to please, and withall so ready to do mischief,
2634 Praise|           Cato he take an occasion of withdrawing rather than put off his
2635 Praise|          indebted, more servile, more witless, more contemptible, yet
2636 Praise|               whoever he was, clearly witnesses, Chapter 44, whose words,
2637 Pref  |            wits, to make their smart, witty reflections on the common
2638 Praise|         happens, fall but into an old wives’ story, they’re presently
2639 Praise| correspondence than between lambs and wolves. From whence it is that
2640 Praise|            Christ lay in the Virgin’s womb; how accidents subsist in
2641 Praise|           price of such a glory as he won thereby.~And besides him
2642 Praise|              if Christ, who after his wonted manner defends his people,
2643 Praise|            that if they can but see a wooden or painted Polypheme Christopher,
2644 Praise|               debauched as Penelope’s wooers; you know the other part
2645 Praise|           half blind, or their wits a wool-gathering, yet give out that they
2646 Praise|        determine not what is the work working, and what a resting in the
2647 Praise|               their heads innumerable worlds; measure out the sun, the
2648 Praise|               wife—a silly thing, God wot, and foolish, yet wanton
2649 Praise|               they rather tickle than wound; nor do they ever more truly
2650 Praise|              cowherd, bovinator for a wrangler, manticulator for a cutpurse—
2651 Pref  |              will not be wanting some wranglers that may cavil and charge
2652 Praise|              be corrupting the sense, wrest it to their own purpose;
2653 Praise|         inscription of that altar, he wrested it into an argument to prove
2654 Praise|            because he’d make so ill a wrestler. And therefore, as a horse
2655 Praise|        whither this famous theologian wrests it. By the sword he interprets
2656 Praise|              not only called all men “wretched and full of calamity,” but
2657 Praise|             but that the one has more wrinkles and years upon his head
2658 Praise|               much happier is this my writer’s dotage who never studies
2659 Praise|               it together by right or wrong. This man is ever laboring
2660 Praise|            our education; to how many wrongs our childhood exposed, to
2661 Praise|              say nothing of Diogenes, Xenocrates, Cato, Cassius, Brutus,
2662 Praise|            audience is either asleep, yawning, or weary of it; but if
2663 Praise|     unimaginable pleasure to hear the yell of the horns and the yelps
2664 Praise|             yell of the horns and the yelps of the hounds, and I believe
2665 Praise|             and those too none of the youngest, that have a greater kindness
2666 Praise|            another while a man; now a youngster, and by and by a grim seignior;
2667       | yours
2668       | yourselves
2669 Praise|             an ugly fellow instead of youthful, and a beast instead of
2670 Praise|               the twelve signs of the zodiac; or, being to preach of