But these, nature could not
have formed them better to destroy their own testimony and overthrow
their calumny.
Hear-say news.--That an elephant, in 1630, came hither ambassador
from the Great Mogul, who could both write and read, and was every
day allowed twelve cast of bread, twenty quarts of Canary sack,
besides nuts and almonds the citizens' wives sent him. That he had
a Spanish boy to his interpreter, and his chief negociation was to
confer or practise with Archy, the principal fool of state, about
stealing hence Windsor Castle and carrying it away on his back if he
can.
Lingua sapientis, potius quam loquentis.--A wise tongue should not
be licentious and wandering; but moved and, as it were, governed
with certain reins from the heart and bottom of the breast: and it
was excellently said of that philosopher, that there was a wall or
parapet of teeth set in our mouth, to restrain the petulancy of our
words; that the rashness of talking should not only be retarded by
the guard and watch of our heart, but be fenced in and defended by
certain strengths placed in the mouth itself, and within the lips.
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