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Updated: June 26, 2025
It was Proclus whom he was really reviling; Proclus as Plato's commentator and representative. The lion had for once got into the ass's skin, and was treated accordingly.
SPIEGEL. He forsakes us in this extremity. Is there no hope of escape? SCHWEITZER. Escape? SPIEGEL. Oh, that I had tarried in Jerusalem! SCHWEITZER. I wish you were choked in a cesspool, you paltry coward! With defenceless nuns you are a mighty man; but at sight of a pair of fists a confirmed sneak! Now show your courage or you shall be sewn up alive in an ass's hide and baited to death with dogs.
And in all these cases it is worth noticing how the profane wits remember the ass's relation to Priapian mysteries, from his fabled interruption of the garden-god's attempt on the nymph Lotis downwards, and assign to him marvellous amatory adventures.
There is a dance of reapers in rye-straw hats, and of rustics in hairy coats like satyrs; a masque of Amazons, a masque of Russians, and a classical masque; several immortal scenes over a weaver in an ass's head, a riot over the colour of a coat which it takes the Lord Mayor of London to quell, and a scene between an infuriated husband and his wife's milliner about the slashing of a sleeve.
It was your equipage I laughed at, not yourselves," and he bowed slightly first to the one and then to the other. "His Highness thinks perhaps," said Martin, "that the man who does an ass's work must necessarily be an ass," at which sally the Prince laughed again. "Sir," said Foy, "I crave your patience for a while, and on no mean matter.
But Pericles broke in: "Unless my eyes deceive me, I saw just now a pair of ears projecting from behind the pillar of Hermes, and these ass's ears can only belong to the notorious tanner." "Cleon!" exclaimed Alcibiades. But Euripides continued: "What do I care about the tanner, since I do not fear the gods of the State? These gods, whose decline Aeschylus foretold long ago!
I was in Asia with Noah in the Ark; I saw the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; I was in India when Rome was built; I am now come here to the remnant of the Trojans. I was with my Lord in the ass's manger; I strengthened Moses through the waters of Jordan; I was in the firmament from the Cauldron of Ceridwen I shall be on earth until the day of doom. * * I quote it from Mr.
The verse ran as follows: Auriculas asini Mida rex habet; King Midas has an ass's ears; but Cornutus altered it thus; Auriculas asini quis non hahet? Who has not an ass's ears? in order that it might not be supposed that it was meant to apply to Nero.
Finally, if, as one may suppose after different diagnoses, this person had the slightest desire to play the role of Tyrcis or Amintas, his white hand, as carefully cared for as a pretty woman's, would have been sufficient to betray him. It was evident that the man was above his costume; a rare thing! The lion's ears pierced the ass's skin this time.
Though Oberon fixed the ass's head on very gently, it awakened him, and rising up, unconscious of what Oberon had done to him, he went towards the bower where the fairy queen slept. 'Ah! what angel is that I see? said Titania, opening her eyes, and the juice of the little purple flower beginning to take effect: 'are you as wise as you are beautiful?
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