How many have I known that would not have their vices hid?
nay, and, to be noted, live like Antipodes to others in the same
city? never see the sun rise or set in so many years, but be as they
were watching a corpse by torch-light; would not sin the common way,
but held that a kind of rusticity; they would do it new, or
contrary, for the infamy; they were ambitious of living backward;
and at last arrived at that, as they would love nothing but the
vices, not the vicious customs. It was impossible to reform these
natures; they were dried and hardened in their ill. They may say
they desired to leave it, but do not trust them; and they may think
they desire it, but they may lie for all that; they are a little
angry with their follies now and then; marry, they come into grace
with them again quickly. They will confess they are offended with
their manner of living like enough; who is not? When they can put
me in security that they are more than offended, that they hate it,
then I will hearken to them, and perhaps believe them; but many now-
a-days love and hate their ill together.
De vere argutis.--I do hear them say often some men are not witty,
because they are not everywhere witty; than which nothing is more
foolish.
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