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face, scarce ever from the glasse, gossipping, dancing, and writing Love-letters. These things are laught at as foolish, as indeed they are ; yet they please themselves, live merrily, swimme in pleasure, and in a word are happy, by my courtesie. But I would have them to whom these things seem ridiculous, to consider with themselves whether it be not better to live so pleasant a life, in such kind of follies, than, as the Proverb goes, ‘To take a Halter and hang themselves’. Besides though these things may be subject to censure, it concerns not my fools in the least, in as much as they take no notice of it, or if they do, they easily neglect it. Ifa stone fall upon a man’s head, that’s evil indeed ; but dishonesty, infamy, villany, ill reports, carrie no more hurt in them than a man is sensible of; and if a man have no sense of them, they are no longer evils. What art thou the worse oat 1 gas dyabov. ? Si populus te sibilet, at tibi plaudas.
