"Supputation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pain com of it, I esteme hym to bee a very fond occupier, which would chauge precious stones for glasse. HE. You meane that would lose the godly pleasures of the mynde, for the coloured pleasures of ye body. SP. That is my meanyng. HE. But nowe let vs come to a more perfecter supputation, neither the agewe || nor yet pouerty foloweth alwaies carnal pleasure, nor the new leprosy or els the palsy wait not on at al times the great & excessiue vse of lecherye, but grudge of cosiece euermore is a folower & sure companio of al vnleaful pleasure, then the which as it is plainly agreed ...
— A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure • Desiderius Erasmus |
