Axiochus.
foure: For that ſame notable man vſed to teach none without wages, hauing alwaies in his mouth that ſaying of Epicharmus, One hand rubbeth another: giue ſomewhat, and ſomewhat take. And it is not long ſithence, that he making a diſcourſe of Philoſophye in the houſe of Callias the ſonne of Hipponicus, ſuch and ſo many things he ſpake againſt the ſtate of life: that I alſo account life in the number of thoſe thinges which be of leſſe waight. And euer ſince that time O Axiochus, my ſoule gaſpeth after death, daily longing to die.
Axiochus.
VVhat then was ſaid of Prodicus?
Socrates.
Marrie I will tell you as they come to my minde. For what parcell (quod he) of our life is not full of wretchednes? dooth not the babie euen taken frō the mothers wombe, powre our plenty of teares, beginning the firſt ſtep of life with griefe? neither afterward hath it once any breathing or reſting time from ſorrow, being either diſtreſſed with pouertie, or pinched with colde, or ſcortched with heate, or payned with ſtripes: and whatſoeuer it ſuffereth, vtter once it cannot, but onely with crying doothſhow
