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Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) by Desiderius Erasmus
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[C]The parsons names are Beatus and Bonifacius.

_Beatus._ God saue you mayster Boniface.
_Bonifacius._ God saue you & god saue you agayne
gĂȘtle _Beatus._ But I wold god bothe we were such,
and so in very dede as we be called by name, that
is to say thou riche & I fayre. _Beatus._ Why do
you thynke it nothynge worth at al to haue a goodly
glorious name. _Bonifacius._ Truely me thynke it is
of no valure or lytle good worthe, onles a man
haue the thynge itselfe whiche is sygnified by the
name. _Beatus._ Yea you maye well thynke your
pleasure, but I am assured that the most part of
all mortall men be of another mynde. _Bonifa._ It
may wel be I do not denye that they are mortal,
but suerly I do not byleue that they are me, which
are so beastly mynded. _Bea._ Yes good syr and they
be men to laye ||your lyfe, onlesse ye thynke
camels and asses do walke about vnder the fygure
and forme of men. _Boni._ Mary I can soner beleue
that then that they be men whiche esteme and passe
more vpon the name, then the thynge. _Bea._
I graunte in certayne kyndes of thinges moost men
had rather haue the thynge then the name, but in
many thynges it is otherwyse and cleane cÔtrary.
_Bo._ I can not well tell what ye meane by that.
_Bea._ And yet the example of this matter is
apparant or sufficiently declared in vs two. Thou
arte called Bonifacius and thou hast in dede the
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