Diog. A little worser than I can of hate.
Alex. And why?
Diog. Because it is better to hate the things which make to love 60 than to love the things which give occasion of hate.
Alex. Why, bee not women the best creatures in the world?
Diog. Next men and bees.
Alex. What doest thou dislike chiefly in a woman?
Diog. One thing. 65
Alex. What?
Diog. That she is a woman.
Alex. In mine opinion thou wert never borne of a woman, that thou thinkest so hardly of women. [Enter Apelles.] But now commeth Apelles, who I am sure is as farre from thy thoughts as 70 thou art from his cunning. Diogenes, I will have thy cabin[970] removed neerer to my court, because I will be a philosopher.