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Enter Hermogenes Stilpo, SpeusippusHerm:
The ayre is temperate, lets walke awhile in theis ffeilds
Gelas:
[I'le putt] What company is this? I[']le putt on this my perrop head
againe least they knowe me.
St:
Aristotle in his Meteorologickes and the xvjt e e n e. page as I remember
defendenth παραδοξ et ατροπος;
Her:
Neither canst thou disproue him,
ffor the Lord Paradox and the Lord [Atropos] perchaunce
where Aristotles freinds; Why walkes Speusippus soe?
where Aristotles freinds; Why walkes Speusippus soe?
St:
Hee is a Peripatetick
Sp:
I[']le defend Aristotle to the death, yea Ile sweare punctually to all
he writes
St:
Sweare thy hart out, I'le say againe, and againe that Aristotle «:»
was a Blockhead, besides his beard he had not one hayre of learning
Sp:
Stirr not vp my Choller.
St.
I defyne a Peripateticke; A Peripatetick
is a two legd liuing Creature, gressible, Vnfeathered, of an Vnshorne—
heade, a writhled beard, beetle browed, of a shallowe witt;
Sp:
I[']le not endure this disgrace;
St:
What wilt thou doe? wilt thou fight
Peripatetick?
Sp:
A man may fight .2. manner of wayes wither Eminus
wt h. his tounge or Cominus wt h. his hands; I'le fight wt h. the Eminus
wt h. my tounge. A Peripatetick is not rightly defined; goe.
Her:
O Ioue Immortall what spectacle [ss] see I?
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Sings.
Come, come, o come Melpomene
Singe dolefull Elegies wt h. me
Bewayle my heauy destinie
Most detestable
Singe dolefull Elegies wt h. me
Bewayle my heauy destinie
Most detestable
With Incke thats blacke on paper white
both morning, noone and eke at night
my fate, my life, my death endite
Most lamentable
both morning, noone and eke at night
my fate, my life, my death endite
Most lamentable
Lett stoare of teares bedew thy Face
Breake sighings from thy heart apace
Gelasimus is in a case [most miserable]
Most miserable.
Breake sighings from thy heart apace
Gelasimus is in a case [most miserable]
Most miserable.
Her:
A prodigie, a prodigie, an asse sings
St.
The worke of nature is either ordinary, or extraordinary, this is
an extraordinary Asse;
Her:
Soe the gods loue what fayre ear«e»
hath he?
Sp:
aswell according to the longitude as latitude
Her:
Heare thou Asse, who hyred thee to digg this ground?
Gelas:
My mr.
Her:
Who'es thy mr.?
Gelas:
Hee that hyred me.
Her:
Art not thou an Asse?
Gelas:
Do'st [thou] thinck me such an asse, as to Confesse my selfe an asse
Her:
By Ioue who could haue made a wyser answeare?
St:
Except me & Plato, and noe man could
Sp:
He'es an asse materially, not formally.
St.
or partiallie, not totallie
Sp:
I'le resolue it in one word; he'es an asse logically, & Capitally, not
Phisik[ly]callie & animallie
Gelas:
Philosophers, I will decide this Controuersy, yee say that I am
an asse
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Sp:
Haue yee the state of the question in brevitie thus
Wee say thou art an asse transcendentallie, not prædicamentally
that is (to expresse my selfe) reason not reasoning, but reasoned
Gelas:
Well, wincke awhile, & yee shall see a wounderfull Metamorphosis [«whe»] w[OMITTED]
& he put«t» capp on head.
Her:
This Philosopher is chainged into an asse.
St
A Chainge is made either essentially or accidentallie, I am
made an asse accidentallie.
Her:
Art not, thou in the Ayre Gelasimus?
Where's Pegasus wherevpon thou mounted
Booted & spur'd fleds't to the Antipodes
Gelas:
The skittish Iade threw me from out the clouds
downe headlong on the earth
Her:
O Cruell fate.
Gelas:
Soe it did please my euill spiritt, but
Buy yf thou please my bootes & gilded spurrs
I[']le henceforth goe a foote.
Her:
What company comes hitherwards?
Timon. Phil. Callim: Blatte. Eut: Demeas & Laches passing ouerthestage.
Gelas:
Timon hath found a mightie heape of gould
See, see, how many clyents follow him.
Her:
Come lett vs alsoe in among the rest
perchaunce wee shall obteyne or. former grace:
Exeunt omnes./
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