Page:The whole familiar colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.djvu/420

415 FAMILIAR COLLOQUIES.  Urticaj viridi graveolentem junge cicutam ; Talia iiarn tali debentur pneniia vatL Aimue, Barbaries, tuque hanc sine cornua circuni Inter candidulas laurum tibi nectier aures.

Jia. This makes me ready to spue ; I cannot bear to hear such silly stuft'. Do I loiter away my time here, and do not go to Z voll to see what my friends are doing there ? Th. Make haste, and let a block- head visit the blockheads; your coming to them will be very acceptable : I see I spend my breath upon you in vain : you will never be a change- ling. I very aptly applied to you that verse of Virgil,

Non ilium nostri possunt mutare labores. " Ve do but endeavour to wash a blackamoor white."

Me. At the beginning of this contention, as soon as ever we espied this monster, we all grew sick at the stomach. Th. I believe so truly. Ca. Mistress, let us leave this beastly creature, and betake ourselves to the airy top of Parnassus hill, and the Heliconian fountain. Th. Lot us do so.

