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Then comes the sign; when some argument is derived from the meaning of a word, in this way: As the Aelian Sentian law orders an assiduus to support an assiduus, it orders a rich man to support a rich man, for a rich man is an assiduus, called so, as Aelius says, from asse dando. III. Arguments are also derived from things which bear some kind of relation to that which is the object of discussion.
Well! dear brother Toby, said my father, upon his first seeing him after he fell in love and how goes it with your Asse? Yorick, were sitting in the parlour, he thought it rather civil to conform to the term my father had made use of than not.
And so they brought out the poore gardener to the Justices, who was committed immediately to prison, but they could never forbeare laughing from the time they found me by my shadow, wherefore is risen a common Proverbe: 'The shadow of the Asse. How the souldier drave Apuleius away, and how he came to a Captaines house, and what happened there.
Leave that and as many other things as thou canst, quite undetermined; by so doing, thou wilt have her curiosity on thy side; and if she is not conquered by that, and thy Asse continues still kicking, which there is great reason to suppose thou must begin, with first losing a few ounces of blood below the ears, according to the practice of the ancient Scythians, who cured the most intemperate fits of the appetite by that means.
And if it had so come to passe that this fearefull maid had beene slaine by him, what danger had we beene in? Then one of the shepheards said: Why doe we not make sacrifice of this common adulterous Asse? Then let us cast dust upon his skinne, and carry it home to our master, and say that the Woolves have devoured him.
And thou art little better, quoth she to the third; for nothing is there in thy panniers but trunk-hose and pantofles and so to the fourth and fifth, going on one by one through the whole string, till coming to the asse which carries it, she turns the pannier upside down, looks at it considers it samples it measures it stretches it wets it dries it then takes her teeth both to the warp and weft of it.
In the meane season by little and little we approached nigh unto the sea cost, even to that place where I lay the night before being an Asse.
The total point of this idiot's drivel consists in calling Sir Thomas "an asse;" and well it justifies the poet's own remark, "Let there be gall enough in thy ink, no matter though thou write with a goose pen."
The chief ambassador, the Scottish noble, Bernard Stuart d'Aubigny, Chamberlain to King Charles, he wrote word, would occupy the Duchess of Bari's apartment, known as the Sala della Asse, from the raised platform at one end of the room, and would use the duchess's boudoir, with the painted Amorini over the mantelpiece, and the adjoining chambers for his dining and robing room.
Then Glewlwyd went into the Hall. And Arthur said to him, "Hast thou news from the gate?" "Half of my life is past, and half of thine. I was heretofore in Kaer Se and Asse, in Sach and Salach, in Lotor and Fotor; and I have been heretofore in India the Great and India the Lesser; and I was in the battle of Dau Ynyr, when the twelve hostages were brought from Llychlyn.
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