Eu. This is so far from being a Presumption, that it looks rather like an Inspiration.  But while we are thus plentifully feeding our Souls, we must not neglect their Companions.

Ti. Who are those?

Eu. Our Bodies; are not they the Soul’s Companions?  I had rather call them so, than Instruments, Habitations or Sepulchres.

Ti. This is certainly to be plentifully refresh’d when the whole Man is refresh’d.

Eu. I see you are very backward to help yourselves; therefore, if you please, I’ll order the Roast-Meat to be brought us, lest instead of a good Entertainment I should treat you with a long one.  Now you see your Ordinary.  Here is a Shoulder of Mutton, but it is a very fine one, a Capon and two Brace of Partridges.  These indeed I had from the Market, this little Farm supply’d me with the rest.

Ti. It is a noble Dinner, fit for a Prince.

Eu. For a Carmelite, you mean.  But such as it is you are welcome to it.  If the Provision be not very dainty you have it very freely.

Ti. Your House is so full of Talk, that not only the Walls but the very Cup speaks.

Eu. What does it say?

Ti.  No Man is hurt but by himself.

Eu. The Cup pleads for the Cause of the Wine.  For it is a common Thing, if Persons get a Fever or the Head-ach by over drinking, to lay it upon the Wine, when they have brought it upon themselves by their Excess.

Soph. Mine speaks Greek. [Greek:  En oino aletheia.] In Wine there’s Truth (when Wine is in the Wit is out.)

Eu. This gives us to understand that it is not safe for Priests or Privy-Counsellors to give themselves so to Wine, because Wine commonly brings that to the Mouth that lay conceal’d in the Heart.

Soph. In old Time among the Egyptians it was unlawful for their Priests to drink any Wine at all, and yet in those Days there was no auricular Confession.

Eu. It is now become lawful for all Persons to drink Wine, but how expedient it is I know not.  What Book is that, Eulalius, you take out of your Pocket?  It seems to be a very neat one, it is all over gilded.

Eulal. It is more valuable for the Inside than the Out.  It is St. Paul’s Epistles, that I always carry about me, as my beloved Entertainment, which I take out now upon the Occasion of something you said, which minds me of a Place that I have beat my Brains about a long Time, and I am not come to a full Satisfaction in yet.  It is in the 6th Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians, All Things are lawful for me, but all Things are not expedient; all Things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the Power of any.  In the first Place (if we will believe the Stoicks) nothing can be profitable to us, that is not honest: