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Enter Hermogenes Stilpo, Speusippus
Herm:
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:

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?

Gelas:
Sings.

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
Wee say not soe absolutely, but according to some transcendentall respect[OMITTED]

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./