How doest thou like our Muses paines, Cornutus?
Corn. The verses have more in them than I see: Your work, my Lord, I doubt will be too long.
Nero. Too long?
Tigell. Too long?
Corn. I, if you write the deedes of all the Romans. How many Bookes thinke you t'include it in?
Nero. I thinke to write about foure hundred Bookes.
Corn. Four hundred! Why, my Lord, they'le nere be read.[27]
Nero. Hah!
Tigell. Why, he whom you esteeme so much, Crisippus, Wrote many more.
Corn. But they were profitable to common life And did Men Honestie and Wisedome teach.