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ES Erasmus Father of Gods, and King of Men lat whose very beck the Heavens shake, must lay-by his forked thunder, and those looks wherewith he conquer’d the Gyants, and with which at pleasure he frights the rest of the Gods, and like a Common Stage-player put on a Disguise, as often as he goes about that, which now and then he do’s, that is to say ? the getting of children: And the Stoicks too, that conceive themselves next to the Gods, yet shew me one of them, nay the veryest Bygot of the Sect, and if he do not put off his beard, the badge of Wisdom, though yet it be no more than what is common with him and Goats; yet at least he must lay-by his supercilious Gravity, smooth his forehead, shake off his rigid Principles, and for some time commit an act of folly and dotage. In fine, that Wiseman who ever he be, if he intends to have Children must have recourse to me. But tell me, I beseech ye, What Man is that would submit his neck to the Noose of Wedlock, if as Wisemen should, he did but first truly weigh the inconvenience of the thing? Or what Woman is there would ever go to ’t did she seriously 1 qui nutu tremefactat Olympum. 2 madomoretv.
