stealing hence Windsor Castle and carrying it away on his back if he
can.

Lingua sapientis, potius quam loquentis.--A wise tongue should not
be licentious and wandering; but moved and, as it were, governed
with certain reins from the heart and bottom of the breast: and it
was excellently said of that philosopher, that there was a wall or
parapet of teeth set in our mouth, to restrain the petulancy of our
words; that the rashness of talking should not only be retarded by
the guard and watch of our heart, but be fenced in and defended by
certain strengths placed in the mouth itself, and within the lips.
But you shall see some so abound with words, without any seasoning
or taste of matter, in so profound a security, as while they are
speaking, for the most part they confess to speak they know not
what.

Of the two (if either were to be wished) I would rather have a plain
downright wisdom, than a foolish and affected eloquence. For what
is so furious and Bedlam like as a vain sound of chosen and
excellent words, without any subject of sentence or science mixed?

Optanda.--Thersites Homeri.--Whom the disease of talking still once
possesseth, he can never hold his peace. Nay, rather than he will
not discourse he will hire men to hear him. And so heard, not
hearkened unto, he comes off most times like a mountebank, that when
he hath praised his medicines, finds none will take them, or trust
him. He is like Homer's Thersites.

[Greek text]; speaking without judgement or measure.