Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|   but he is also in profound earnest and in a deeper vein of
 2 Phaedr|    their jest into a sort of earnest. (Compare Phaedo, Symp.)
 3 Phaedr| remains with them, and is an earnest of good things to come.~
 4 Phaedr|    you mean that I am not in earnest?~PHAEDRUS: Now don’t talk
 5 Phaedr|    to be divulged even at my earnest desire. Only, as you say,
 6 Phaedr|  SOCRATES: How profoundly in earnest is the lover, because to
 7 Phaedr|    that his assailant was in earnest?~PHAEDRUS: I thought, Socrates,
 8 Phaedr|       further, that in sober earnest I, having persuaded you
 9 Phaedr|      who teaches rhetoric in earnest will give an exact description
10 Phaedr|   pastime. But when he is in earnest he sows in fitting soil,
11 Phaedr|     be his way when he is in earnest; he will do the other, as