from any wickedness of mine, and that by it the public is not hurt;
what doth it concern me? And wherein can the public be hurt?
For thou must not altogether be carried by conceit and common opinion:
as for help thou must afford that unto them after thy best ability,
and as occasion shall require, though they sustain damage,
but in these middle or worldly things; but however do not thou
conceive that they are truly hurt thereby: for that is not right.
But as that old foster-father in the comedy, being now to take his leave
doth with a great deal of ceremony, require his foster-child's rhombus,
or rattle-top, remembering nevertheless that it is but a rhombus;
so here also do thou likewise. For indeed what is all this pleading
and public bawling for at the courts? O man, hast thou forgotten
what those things are! yea but they are things that others much
care for, and highly esteem of. Wilt thou therefore be a fool too?
Once I was; let that suffice.