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He replied: "Why, forsooth! use I gave credence to the words of a woman!" The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. "Yes," said the Horse; "if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley."
I have been marched from Temple Bar to Whitechapel, on the matter of a pinmaker's wife having pricked her fingers marry, her husband that made the weapon might have salved the wound. And here is this fantastic ape, pretty Mistress Marget, forsooth such a beauty as I could make of a Dutch doll, and as fantastic, and humorous, and conceited, as if she were a duchess.
Your temper is as bad as mine. You've shed blood enough in your time, and need not rail at me. Jesus. Ah, sire, only the blood of heretics. Jehovah. Heretics, forsooth! They were very worthy people for the most part, and their only crime was that they neglected you. But why should we wrangle? We stand or fall together, and I am falling.
So in the most quoted passage from Sidney's Defense, it is a "tale forsooth," which draws old men from the chimney corner, and children from play, and "the narration" which furnishes the groundplot of poesie.
'Hark ye, Sir Lancelot, thou mayest swear to Heaven as to some things, and there are those that may be moved by thy round oaths. But this I charge upon thee, thou false, proud knight, that thou didst slay two unarmed men men that loved thee and worshipped thee! Forsooth, thou boastful braggart and mouthing hero, thou wilt not dare to deny it!
And thus, O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine pyrrhonism, at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions, and would fain teach us that if we are true, forsooth, our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God. I am not careful to justify myself.
Nay, nay, they turn their backs, as we have said already, and flee from their own decrees, and have cut off and abolished again within a short space the same things which, but a few years before, themselves had established for evermore, forsooth, to continue. How should one, then, trust them in the fathers, in the old councils, and in the words spoken by God?
Further, lest glory should entice you, I will bind each of you by an oath: whichever of you shall be an aedile or a praetor, let him be excommunicated and accursed. To the end, forsooth, that you may gain those applauses, which Agrippa gains, like a cunning fox imitating a generous lion? O Agamemnon, why do you prohibit any one from burying Ajax? I am a king.
Pass that word onward." Then he looked at me and said: "Now, lad from Essex, thou hadst best sit down out of the way at once: forsooth I wot not why I brought thee hither. Wilt thou not back to the cross, for thou art little of a fighting-man?" "Nay," said I, "I would see the play. What shall come of it?" "Little," said he; "we shall slay a horse or twain maybe.
But I see thou art too proud to do an old man a service. Thou writst thyself gentleman, forsooth, and high blood will not stoop." "Not so, sir," returned Ambrose, "I would work in any way so I could study the humanities, and hear the Dean preach. Cannot you commend me to his school?" "Ha!" exclaimed the canon, "this is your sort, is it? I'll have nought to do with it! Preaching, preaching!
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