But how grave you look, sir.

No offence! You are one of the rare specimens of featherless birds endowed with reason, who unite to the austerity of Cato the amiability of Titus." "All due honour to Cato," added Wilibald Pirckheimer with a slight bend of his stately head; "but in my young days we had a better understanding of the art of reconciling stern duty with indulgent compassion, when dealing with a beautiful Calypso whom our sternness threatened to wound.
But everything in the good old days was not better than at the present time, and that you, whom I honour as the most faithful of husbands, may not misunderstand me, Lienhard: To bend and to succumb are two different things." "Succumb!" Sir Hans von Obernitz, the Nuremberg magistrate, here interposed indignantly.

"A Groland, who, moreover, is blessed with a loyal, lovely wife, succumb to the sparkling eyes of a vagabond wanton! The Pegnitz would flow up the castle cliff first.

I should think we might have less vulgar subjects to discuss." "The daring, skilful ropedancer certainly does not belong to the latter," Doctor Peutinger eagerly retorted.

"Besides, who would not desire to know how the free, hot-blooded daughter of the highway settled the account with you, friend Lienhard?
Love disdained is said to be the mother of hatred, and from the days of Potiphar's wife has often caused cruel vengeance.