Axiochus

for the wonted company & surpassing delights of that eternal fellowship; whereby it is evident, that the passage from life, is a change from much evil to great good.

Since therefore O Socrates thou deemest this life so tedious and troublesome, why doost thou still abide in the same? being as thou art a man of so great wisdom and experience, whose knowledge reacheth farre above our common sense, and beyond the usual reason of most men.

Thou Axiochus doost not report rightly of me: for thou judgest as the common people of Athens, that because you see I am given to seek and search out many things, therefore I know somewhat. But to say the truth, I would heartily wish, and would the same account in great parte of happiness, if I knew but these common and customable matters: so farre am I from the knowledge of those high and excellent things. For these things which I nowe declare, are the sayings of Prodicus the wise man: some of them being bought for a penny: some for two groats, and other some for