Axiochus.

foure: For that same notable man used to teach none without wages, having always in his mouth that saying of Epicharmus, One hand rubbeth another: give somewhat, and somewhat take. And it is not long sithence, that he making a discourse of Philosophy in the house of Callias the son of Hipponicus, such and so many things he spake against the state of life: that I also account life in the number of those things which be of less weight. And ever since that time O Axiochus, my soul gaspeth after death, daily longing to die.

What then was said of Prodicus?

Marry I will tell you, as they come to my mind. For what parcel (quod he) of our life is not full of wretchedness? dooth not the baby even taken from the mothers womb, pour out plenty of tears, beginning the first step of life with grief? neither afterward hath it once any breathing or resting time from sorrow, being either distressed with poverty, or pinched with cold, or scorched with heat, or pained with stripes: and whatsoever it suffereth, utter once it cannot, but only with crying dooth