Will. Ay, sir, I thank God.
Touch. 'Thank God'; a good answer. Art
rich? 28
Will. Faith, sir, so so.
Touch. 'So so,' is good, very good, very excel-
lent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so. Art
thou wise? 32
Will. Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.
Touch. Why, thou sayest well. I do now re-
member a saying, 'The fool doth think he is
wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a
fool.' The heathen philosopher, when he had a
desire to eat a grape, would open his lips when
he put it into his mouth; meaning thereby that
grapes were made to eat and lips to open. You
do love this maid? 41
Will. I do, sir.
Touch. Give me your hand. Art thou learned?
Will. No, sir. 44
Touch. Then learn this of me: to have, is to
have; for it is a figure in rhetoric, that drink,
being poured out of a cup into a glass, by fill-
ing the one doth empty the other; for all your
writers do consent that ipse is he: now, you are
not ipse, for I am he. 50
Will. Which he, sir?
Touch. He, sir, that must marry this woman.
Therefore, you clown, abandon,—which is in the
vulgar, leave,—the society,—which in the boorish
is, company,—of this female,—which in the com-
mon is, woman; which together is, abandon the
society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest;
or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit,
49 ipse is he; cf. n.
