From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Desiderius Erasmus

What more vertuouser thyng, I praye you, is possible too bee spokê then this || saiyng. Spu. Yea, but all menne wonder and crye out on it, and saye: it is the voyce of a bruite beast, and not of manne. Hedo. I knowe thei doo so, but thei erre in ye vocables of theise thinges, and are very ignoraunt of the true and natiue significations of the woordes, for if wee speake of perfecte thynges, no kinde of menne bee more righter Epicures, then Christen men liuing reuerêtly towardes God and mã, and in the right seruice and worshiping of Christ. SPV But I thinke the Epicures bee more nerer and agree rather with the Cynickes, then with the Christien sorte: forsoth ye Christiens make them selues leane || with fastynge, bewayle and lament their offences, and eyther they bee nowe poore, or elles theyr charitie and liberalitie on the nedye maketh theim poore, thei suffer paciently to bee oppressed of mêne that haue great power and take many wronges at their handes, and many men also laughe theim too skorne. Nowe, if pleasure brynge felicitie wyth it, or helpe in anye wyse vnto the furderaunce of vertue: we see playnly that this kynde of lyfe is fardest from al pleasures. Hedonius. But doo you not admitte Plautus too bee of authoritie? Speudeus. Yea, yf he speake vprightely.

Hed Monologue from A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure

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