If I, for delight to hear you speak in the matter, forget
myself and you both, and put you to too much pain, remember your
own ease. And when you wish to leave off, command me to go my way
and seek some other time.
ANTHONY: Forsooth, cousin, if a man were very weak, many words
spoken (as you said right now) without interpausing, would
peradventure at length somewhat weary him. And therefore wished I
the last time, after you were gone (when I felt myself, to say the
truth, even a little weary), that I had not so told you a long tale
alone, but that we had more often interchanged words, and parted
the talking between us, with more often interparling upon your
part, in such manner as learned men use between the persons whom
they devise, disputing in their feigned dialogues. But yet in that
point I soon excused you and laid the lack where I found it, and
that was even upon mine own neck.
For I remembered that between you and me it fared as it did once
between a nun and her brother. Very virtuous was this lady, and of
a very virtuous place and enclosed religion. And therein had she
been long, in all which time she had never seen her brother, who
was likewise very virtuous too, and had been far off at a
university, and had there taken the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
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