Bellinus, Malvenda, Joannius, Gomezulus
This dialogue (as its inscription indicates) has two divisions. The earlier part is a paraphrase of the first dialogue, for he treats of almost the same things as there, but more copiously: he describes the manner of putting on one’s clothes or dressing one’s self, and the kinds of clothes. The second part contains the morning constitutional, and includes a noteworthy description of spring as it reveals itself to all the senses.
First Part
Mal.
Nempe haec adsidue? Iam clarum mane fenestras intrat et angustas extendit lumine rimas: stertimus indomitum quod despumare Falernum sufficiat.[48]
(Persius, iii. 1–1.)
Bell. It is plain to be seen that you are not in possession of your senses, for if you were, you would not be awake so long before morning, nor pour out verses, like a satyr’s, by which you disclose your frenzy.
Mal. Then hear some epigrammatic verses, with no bite in them and yet full of salt (edentulos et salsos).
Surgite iam pueris vendit ientacula pistor
Cristataeque sonant undique lucis aves.[49].
Martial, 223.
Bell. The call of breakfast would drive off sleep from me more quickly than any din of thine.