Gascoigne, George / Ariosto, Ludovico · published 1573 · first performed or written 1566 (Annals) comedy unassigned nearest T35 Fools, wit and railing · 493 words
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How can it be otherwise? you are but young. I am fifty years old. He tells ten less than he is. What sayst thou of ten less? I say I would have thought you ten less, you look like one of six and thirty, or seven and thirty at the most. I am no less than I tell. You are like enough to live fifty more, show me your hand. Why is Pasiphilo a Chiromancer? What is not Pasiphilo? I pray you show me it a little. Here it is. O how straight and infract is this line of life, you will live to the years of Melchisedech. Thou wouldest say, Methusalem. Why is it not all one? I perceive you are no very good Bibler Pasiphilo. Yes sir an excellent good Bibler, specially in a bottle: Oh what a mount of Venus here is, but this light serveth not very well, I will behold it another day, when the air is clearer, and tell you somewhat, peradventure to your contentation. You shall do me great pleasure: but tell me, I pray thee Pasiphilo, whom dost thou think Polynesta liketh better, Erostrato or me? Why you out of doubt: She is a gentlewoman of a noble mind, and maketh greater account of the reputation she shall have in marrying your worship, than that poor scholar, whose birth and parentage God knoweth, and very few else. Yet he taketh it upon him bravely in the country. Yea, where no man knoweth the contrary: but let him brave it, boast his birth, and do what he can, the virtue and knowledge that is within this body of yours, is worth more than all the country he came from. It becometh not a man to praise himself: but in deed I may say, and say truly, that my knowledge hath stood me in better stead at a pinch, than could all the goods in the world. I came out of Otranto when the Turks won it, and first I came to Padua, after hither; where by reading, counseling, and pleading, within twenty years I have gathered and gained as good as ten thousand Ducats. Yea marry, this is the right knowledge, Philosophy, Poetry, Logic, and all the rest, are but pickling sciences in comparison to this. But pickling in deed, whereof we have a verse: The trade of Law doth fill the boisterous bags, They swim in silk, when others roist in rags. O excellent verse, who made it? Virgil? Virgil? tush it is written in one of our gloss. Sure whosoever wrote it, the moral is excellent, and worthy to be written in letters of gold: but to the purpose: I think you shall never recover the wealth that you lost at Otranto. I think I have doubled it, or rather made it four times as much: but in deed, I lost mine only son there, a child of five years old. O great pity.
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How can it be otherwise? you are but yong. I am fiftie yeres olde. He telles ten lesse than he is. What sayst thou of ten lesse? I say I woulde haue thoughte you ten lesse, you looke like one of sixe and thirtie, or seuen and thirtie at the moste. I am no lesse than I tell. You are like inough to liue fiftie more, shewe m your hande. Why is Pasiphilo a Chiromancer? What is not Pasiphilo? I pray you shewe me it a little. Here it is. O how straight and infracte is this line of life, you will liue to the yeres of Melchisedech. Thou wouldest say, Methusalem. Why is it not all one? I perceiue you are no very good Bibler Pasiphilo. Yes sir an excellent good Bibler, specially in a bottle: Oh what a mounte of Uenus here is, but this lighte serueth not very well, I will beholde it an other day, whē the ayre is clearer, and tell you somewhat, peraduenture to your contentation. You shal do me great pleasure: but tell me, I pray thé Pasiphilo, whome doste thou thinke Polynesta liketh better, Erostrato or me? Why you out of doubt: She is a gentlewoman of a noble minde, and maketh greater accompte of the reputation she shall haue in marrying your worship, than that poore scholer, whose birthe and parentage God knoweth, and very fewe else. Yet he taketh it vpon him brauely in the countrey. Yea, where no man knoweth the cōtrarie: but let him braue it, bost his birth, and do what he can, the vertue and knowledge that is within this body of yours, is worth more than all the countrey he came from. It becommeth not a man to prayse himselfe: but in déede I may say, and say truely, that my knowledge hath stoode me in better stéede at a pinche, than coulde all the goodes in the worlde. I came out of Otranto when the Turkes wonne it, and first I came to Padua, after hither; where by reading, counsailing, and pleading, within twentie yeres I haue gathered and gayned as good as ten thousande Ducats. Yea mary, this is the righte knowledge, Philosophie, Poetrie, Logike, and all the rest, are but pickling sciences in comparison to this. But pyckling in déede, whereof we haue a verse: The trade of Lavve doth fill the boystrous bagges, They svvimme in silke, vvhen others royst in ragges. O excellent verse, who made it? Virgil? Virgil? tushe it is written in one of our gloses. Sure who so euer wrote it, the moral is excellent, and worthy to be written in letters of golde: but to the purpose: I thinke you shall neuer recouer the wealth that you loste at Otranto. I thinke I haue doubled it, or rather made it foure times as muche: but in déed, I lost mine only sonne there, a childe of fiue yeres olde. O great pitie.