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 kinge whiche by lawe and equyte regardes more the commoditie of his people then his owne lucre/yf he be a bisshop which alwayes is careful for the lordes flocke comytted to his pastorall charge/yf he be a magistrate which frankelie and of good wyll dothe make prouysyon, and dothe all thinge for the comyn welthes sake/and yf he be a phylosopher whiche passynge not vpon the goodes of this worlde, only geueth hym selfe to attayn to a good mynde, and to leade a vertuous lyfe. Bea. Lo thus ye may perseyue what a nombre of semblable exaples ye may collecte & gether. Boni. Undouted a great sorte. Bea. But I pray the tel me wyll you saye that all these are no men. Boni. Nay I feare rather lest in so sayenge it shulde cost vs our lyues, and ||so myght we our selues shortelye be no men. Bea. Yf man be a resonable creature, howe ferre dyffers this from all good reason, that in comodities apertayning to the body (for so they deserue rather to be called then goodnes) and in outwarde gyftes whiche dame fortune geues and takes awaye at her pleasure, we had rather haue the thynge then the name, and in the true and only goodnes of the mynd we passe more vpon the name then the thynge. Boni. So god helpe me it is a corrupte and a preposterours iudgement, yf a man marke and consyder it wel. Bea. The selfe same reason is in contrarie thinges. Boni. I wolde gladly knowe what ye meane by that. Bea. We maye iudge lykewyse the same of the names of thynges to be eschued, and incommodites which was spoken of thynges to be diffyred and comodites. Boni. Nowe I haue considered the thynges well, it apereth to be euen so as ye saye in dede. __Bea.__ It shulde be ||more feared of a good prynce to be a tyraunt in dede then to haue the name of a tyraunt.  And yf an euyll bysshop be a thefe and a robber, then we shulde not so greatly abhorre and hate the name as the thynge. Boni. Eyther so it is or so it shuld be. Bea. Nowe gather you of the rest as I haue done of the prynce & the bysshop. Boni. Me thynkes I vnderstande this gere wonderouse well. Bea. Do not all men hate the name of a fole or to be called a moome, a sotte, or an asse? Boni. Yeas as moche as they do any one thynge. Bea. And how saye you were not he a starke fole that wold fishe with a golde bayte, that wolde preferre or esteme glasse better then precious stones, or whiche loues his horse or dogges better then his wyfe and his chyldre? Boni. He were as wyse as waltoms calfe, or madder then iacke of Redyng. Bea. And be not they as wyse whiche not assygned, chosen, nor yet