O ye water-drinkers! is it then by this delusive fountain, that ye have so often governed and turn’d this world about like a mill-wheel—grinding the faces of the impotent—bepowdering their ribs—bepeppering their noses, and changing sometimes even the very frame and face of nature⸺
If I was you, quoth Yorick , I would drink more water, Eugenius —And, if I was you, Yorick , replied Eugenius , so would I.
Which shows they had both read Longinus ⸺
For my own part, I am resolved never to read any book but my own, as long as I live.