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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.