Ant. No, they pass the Time away.
Mag. How can it be then, that such pleasant Companions should make me mad?
Ant. That's the common Saying.
Mag. But I by Experience find quite the contrary. How many more do we see grow mad by hard drinking, unseasonable feasting, and sitting up all Night tippling, which destroys the Constitution and Senses, and has made People mad?
Ant. By my Faith, I would not have a learned Wife.
Mag. But I bless myself, that I have gotten a Husband that is not like yourself. Learning both endears him to me, and me to him.
Ant. Learning costs a great Deal of Pains to get, and after all we must die.
Mag. Notable Sir, pray tell me, suppose you were to die to-Morrow, had you rather die a Fool or a wise Man?
Ant. Why, a wise Man, if I could come at it without taking Pains.
Mag. But there is nothing to be attained in this Life without Pains; and yet, let us get what we will, and what Pains soever we are at to attain it, we must leave it behind us: Why then should we think much to be at some Pains for the most precious Thing of all, the Fruit of which will bear us Company unto another Life.