For they are
like to have their house here, the earth, bound fast on their backs
for ever, and not to walk with it where they will, as the snail
creepeth about with hers, but to lie fast bound in the midst of it
with the foul fire of hell about them. For into this folly they
bring themselves by their own fault, as the drunken man bringeth
himself into drunkenness, whereby the evil that he doth in his
drunkenness is not forgiven him for his folly, but to his pain is
imputed to his fault.
VINCENT: Surely, uncle, this seemeth not unlikely, and by their
fault they fall in such folly indeed. And yet, if this be folly
indeed, then are some folk fools who think themselves right wise.
ANTHONY: Who think themselves wise? Marry, I never saw a fool yet
who thought himself other than wise! For as it is one spark of
soberness left in a drunken head when he perceiveth himself to be
drunk and getteth himself fair to bed, so if a fool perceive
himself a fool that point is no folly but a little spark of wit.
But now, cousin, as for these kind of fools, who are loth to die
for the love that they bear to their worldly fancies which they
would, by their death, leave behind them and forsake: Those who
would for that cause rather forsake the faith than die, would
rather forsake it than lose their worldly goods, though there were
no peril of death offered them at all.
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