Two of Erasmus’s Latin colloquies in Edmund Becke’s English translation of about 1549, kept in their Tudor spelling. In the first, Cannius teases Polyphemus, a swaggering gospeller who carries the scriptures but lives like an epicure; in the second, Beatus and Bonifacius discuss the gap between the names of things and the things themselves.
A small, witty piece of Reformation-era satire, prized by readers of early modern English. Download the free EPUB.