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 I wish, Yorick, said my father, you had read Plato; for there you would have learnt that there are two —I know there were two, replied Yorick, amongst the ancients—one—for the vulgar, and another for the learned; but I think might have served both of them very well—

It could not; replied my father—and for the same reasons: for of these Loves, according to Ficinus's comment upon Velasius, the one is rational

the other is natural

the first ancient—without mother—where Venus had nothing to do: the second, begotten of Jupiter and Dione—

—Pray brother, quoth my uncle Toby, what has a man who believes in God to do with this? My father could