185 Of a learned man not esteemed.
A Certaine learned man béeing bidden to the feaste of a Prince, and commaunded to sitte
A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...
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down in the nethermost roomes, when the other guestes had great fishes sette before them, but to him very small ones, he didde eate none, but put them one after an other to his mouth, then to hys ears, as though he would demaund somthing of them, and after layd them downe whole and vn∣touched in the dishes again: whom the maister of the feast asked why he did so? he aunswered, two yeare agoe in these parties my father through shipwracke was cast away, and what became of his body I coulde not afterwardrs knowe, I dyd therfore demaūd of these little fishes if they cold tel any tydings of him, but they aunswered that time they were not bred: wherfore I must aske the greater fishes. The Prince hearing so merie a saying, commaunded of the greater fishes to be set before him, & euer after he placed him among his chiefest guestes.
MOR. Amongst vnlearned men, learning is not so profitable as to the learned is pleasaunt and mery talke.