eatus._ Yea you maye well thynke your
pleasure, but I am assured that the most part of
all mortall men be of another mynde. _Bonifa._ It
may wel be I do not denye that they are mortal,
but suerly I do not byleue that they are me, which
are so beastly mynded. _Bea._ Yes good syr and they
be men to laye ||your lyfe, onlesse ye thynke
camels and asses do walke about vnder the fygure
and forme of men. _Boni._ Mary I can soner beleue
that then that they be men whiche esteme and passe
more vpon the name, then the thynge. _Bea._
I graunte in certayne kyndes of thinges moost men
had rather haue the thynge then the name, but in
many thynges it is otherwyse and cleane cotrary.
_Bo._ I can not well tell what ye meane by that.
_Bea._ And yet the example of this matter is
apparant or sufficiently declared in vs two. Thou
arte called Bonifacius and thou hast in dede the
thynge wherby thou bearest thy name. Yet if there
were no other remedy but eyther thou must lacke
the one or the other, whether had you rather haue
a fowle and deformed face or elles for Boniface be
called Maleface or horner? _Boni._ Beleue me I had
rather be called fowle Thersites then haue a
monstrous or a deformyed face, whether I haue a
good face or no ||I can not tell. _Bea._ And
euen so had I for yf I were ryche and there were
no remedy but that I must eyther forgoo my
rychesse, or my name I had rather be called Irus
whiche was a poore beggers name then lacke my
ryches. _Boni._ I agree to you for asmoch as ye
speake the trouth, and as you thynke. _Bea._ Iudge
all them to be of the same mynde that I am of
whiche are indued with helthe or other commodities
and qualities appartaynynge to the body. _Boni._
That is very trewe. _Bea._ Yea but I praye the
cosyder and marke howe many men we se whiche had
rather haue the name of a lerned and a holy man,
then to be well lerned, vertuous, & holy in dede.
_Boni._ I knowe a good sorte of suche men for my
part. _Bea._ Tell me thy fatasie I pray the do not
suche men passe more vpon the name then the
thinge? _Boni._ Methynke thy do. _Bea._ Yf we had a
logician here whiche could well and clarkelie
defyne what were a kynge, what a bysshoppe,
||what a magistrate, what a philosopher is,
padueture we shuld find som amog these iolly
felowes whiche had rather haue the name then the
thynge. _Boni._ Surely & so thynke I. Yf he be a