Pe. If you will, we'll get Nævius along with us too.
Jo. If we have but him, we shall never want merry Stories. I like the Company mainly, the next Thing is to pitch upon a pleasant Place.
Pe. I'll show you a Place where you shall neither want the Shade of a Grove, nor the pleasant Verdure of Meadows, nor the purling Streams of Fountains, you'll say it is a Place worthy of the Muses themselves.
Jo. You promise nobly.
Pe. You are too intent upon your Books; you sit too close to your Books; you make yourself lean with immoderate Study.
Jo. I had rather grow lean with Study than with Love.
Pe. We don't live to study, but we therefore study that we may live pleasantly.
Jo. Indeed I could live and dye in my Study.
Pe. I approve well enough of studying hard, but not to study myself to Death.
Pe. Has this Walk pleas'd you?