Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
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is refresh'd.
_Eu._ I see you are very backward to help yourselves; therefore, if you please, I'll order the Roast-Meat to be brought us, lest instead of a good Entertainment I should treat you with a long one. Now you see your Ordinary. Here is a Shoulder of Mutton, but it is a very fine one, a Capon and two Brace of Partridges. These indeed I had from the Market, this little Farm supply'd me with the rest. _Ti._ It is a noble Dinner, fit for a Prince. _Eu._ For a _Carmelite_, you mean. But such as it is you are welcome to it. If the Provision be not very dainty you have it very freely. _Ti._ Your House is so full of Talk, that not only the Walls but the very Cup speaks. _Eu._ What does it say? _Ti. No Man is hurt but by himself._ _Eu._ The Cup pleads for the Cause of the Wine. For it is a common Thing, if Persons get a Fever or the Head-ach by over drinking, to lay it upon the Wine, when they have brought it upon themselves by their Excess. _Soph._ Mine speaks _Greek_. [Greek: En oinô alêtheia.] _In Wine there's Truth_ (when Wine is in the Wit is out.) _Eu._ This gives us to understand that it is not safe for Priests or |
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