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What do you say to that, philosophaster?" This last epithet was the drop of water that made the full cup overflow. Placido enjoyed among his friends the reputation of being a philosopher, so he lost his patience, threw down his book, arose, and faced the professor. "Enough, Padre, enough! Your Reverence can put all the marks against me that you wish, but you haven't the right to insult me.
Heroes! each of you throw his purse among these fellows! they say that we and our ladies are living on their spoils! And he tossed his purse among the crowd. In an instant every Goth had followed his example: more than one following it up by dashing a bracelet or necklace into the face of some hapless philosophaster.
Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: Hamlet and Macbeth with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting. The lost armada is his jeer in Love's Labour Lost.
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