"These are good signs. Thou hast not lost all grace."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"With the encouragement of Dr. Glaston--"
SIR THOMAS.
"And was it Dr. Glaston?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Said I not so?"
SIR THOMAS.
"The learnedst clerk in Christendom! a very Friar Bacon! The Pope
offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate
him,--poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy,--so
apostolic and desperate a doctor is Doctor Glaston! so acute in his
quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing! He knows the dark arts,
but stands aloof from them. Prithee, what were his words unto
thee?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Manna, sir, manna! pure from the desert!"
SIR THOMAS.
"Ay, but what spake he? for most sermons are that, and likewise many
conversations after dinner."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"He spake of the various races and qualities of men, as before
stated; but chiefly on the elect and reprobate, and how to
distinguish and know them."
SIR THOMAS.
"Did he go so far?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"He told me that by such discussion he should say enough to keep me
constantly out of evil company."
SIR THOMAS.
"See there! see there! and yet thou art come before me!--Can nothing
warn thee?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
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