Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
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_Cy._ I can't tell, unless it was my Destiny. So it pleas'd God. As the Devil would have it. _Ma._ Now you see that Learning and Virtue are the safest Riches; for as they can't be taken from a Man, so neither are they burthensome to him that carries them. _Cy._ Indeed you Philosophize very well; but in the mean Time I'm in Perplexity. * * * * * _CLAUDIUS, BALBUS._ _Cl._ I am glad to see you well come Home _Balbus_. _Ba._ And I to see you alive _Claudius_. _Cl._ You are welcome Home into your own Country again. _Ba._ You should rather congratulate me as a Fugitive from _France_. _Cl._ Why so? _Ba._ Because they are all up in Arms there. _Cl._ But what have Scholars to do with Arms? _Ba._ But there they don't spare even Scholars. |
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