fervid unctuous anxious neurar solunar pipa http://www.alansondheim.org/pipa2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/pipaone.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/pipazero.mp3 "'Alas, Euphues, by how much the more I love the high climbing of thy capacity, by so much the more I fear thy fall. The fine crystal is sooner crazed than the hard marble; the greenest beech burneth faster than the dryest oak; the fairest silk is soonest soiled; and the sweetest wine turneth to the sharpest vinegar. The pestilence doth most rifest infact the clearest complexion, and the caterpillar cleaveth unto the ripest fruit; the most delicate wit is allured with small enticement unto vice and most subject to yield unto vanity. If therefore thou do but hearken unto the Sirens thou wilt be enamoured. One drop of poison infecteth the whole tun of wine, one leaf of Coloquintida marreth and spoileth the whole pot of porridge, one iron-mole defaceth the whole piece of lawn.'" "She, having thus discoursed with herself her own miseries, cast herself on the bed. And there let her lie. And return we to Euphues, who was so caught in the gin of folly that he neither could comfort himself nor durst ask counsel of his friend, suspecting that which indeed as true, that Philautus was corrival with him and cockmate with Lucilla. Amidst, therefore, these his extremeties between hope and fear, he uttered these or like speeches :-- 'What is he, Euphues, that, knowing thy wit and seeing thy folly, but will rather punish thy lewndess than pity thy heaviness? Was there ever any so fickle so soon to be allured? Any ever so faithless to deceive his friend? Ever any so foolish to bathe himself in his own misfortune? Too true it is that as the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so wit always striveth against wisdom: and as the bee is oftentimes hurt with her own honey, so is wit not seldom plagued with his own conceit.'" - from John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, 1568, edited Croll & Clemons, 1916 __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
