William Shakspeare.
“Said I not so?”
Sir Thomas.
“The learnedst clerk in Christendom! a very Friar Bacon! The Pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him,—poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy,—so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Doctor Glaston! so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing! He knows the dark arts, but stands aloof from them. Prithee, what were his words unto thee?”
William Shakspeare.
“Manna, sir, manna! pure from the desert!”
Sir Thomas.
“Ay, but what spake he? for most sermons are that, and likewise many conversations after dinner.”
William Shakspeare.
“He spake of the various races and qualities of men, as before stated; but chiefly on the elect and reprobate, and how to distinguish and know them.”