Pagina 38 [38]
OCR
MORIZ ENCOMIUM OR THE PRAISE OF FOLLY An Oration, of feigned matter, spoken by Folly in her own Person T what rate soever the World talks of me (for I am not ignorant what an ill report Folly hath got, even amongst the most Foolish), yet that I am that She, that onely She, whose Deity recreates both gods and men, even this is a sufficient Argument, that I no sooner stept up to speak to this full Assembly, than all your faces put on a kind of new and unwonted pleasantness. So suddenly have you clear’d your brows, and with so frolique and hearty a laughter given me your applause, that in troth, as many of you as I behold on every side of me, seem to me no less than Homer’s gods drunk with Nectar and Nepenthe; whereas before,
