Con. What Difference is there between a poor Man and a rich Man?
Innk. Fortune.
Con. And yet it would be unbecoming a poor Man to imitate a rich Man in his Dress.
Innk. Very true, as rich Men go now a-Days.
Con. What Difference is there between a Fool and a wise Man?
Innk. Something more than there is between a rich Man and a poor Man.
Con. Are not Fools dress'd up in a different Manner from wise Men?
Innk. I can't tell how well it becomes you, but your Habit does not differ much from theirs, if it had but Ears and Bells.
Con. These indeed are wanting, and we are the Fools of this World, if we really are what we pretend to be.
Innk. What you are I don't know; but this I know that there are a great many Fools that wear Ears and Bells, that have more Wit than those that wear Caps lin'd with Furs, Hoods, and other Ensigns of wise Men; therefore it seems a ridiculous Thing to me to make a Shew of Wisdom by the Dress rather than in Fact. I saw a certain Man, more than a Fool, with a Gown hanging down to his Heels, a Cap like our Doctors, and had the Countenance of a grave Divine; he disputed publickly with a Shew of Gravity, and he was as much made on by great Men, as any of their Fools, and was more a Fool than any of them.