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34 Erasmus those several little tricks of setting their Faces, painting their Eye-brows, and smoothing their Skins? And now tell me, what higher Letters of Recommendation have they to men than this Folly? For what is it they do not permit ’em to do? and to what other purpose than that of pleasure ? wherein yet their folly is not the least thing that pleaseth; which how true it is, I think no one will deny, that does but consider with himself, what foolish Discourse and odd Gambals pass between a man and his woman, as oft as he has a mind to be gamesome ? And so I have shown ye whence the first and chiefest delight of man’s life springs. But there are some, you'll say, and those too none of the youngest, that have a greater kindness for the Pot than the Petticoat, and place their chiefest pleasure in good fellowship. If there can be any great entertainment without a woman at it, let others look to ’t. This I am sure, there was never any pleasant which Folly gave not the relish to. Insomuch that if they find no occasion of Laughter, they send for +‘ one that may make it’, or hire some Buffon flatterer, 1 yeAwromo.dy quempiam.
