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DAMON AND PYTHIAS, SELS. by JOHN BANIM

First Line: IT IS A MARVELOUS PHANTASY, THOU SPEAKEST OF IN DIONYSIUS
Proc. It is a marvellous phantasy, thou speakest of
In Dionysius.
Dam. Yes, his mind is made
Of strange materials, that are almost cast
In contrariety to one another.
The school and camp, in his ambition, make
A strange division .
Proc It is his creed, that, in this flesh of ours,
Self ever entertains predominance;
And, to all friendship he hath ever been
A persevering infidel. For this,
elike, he tries a strange experiment.
What sayest thou?
Will Damon come again?
Dam. " Our love of life is in the very instinct
Of mere material action , when we do
Even so slight a thing as wink an eye
Against the wind. Place me a soulless dog
Upon the bare edge of a height, and he
Shall shudder and shrink back, though none have proved
To his capacity, that the fall were dangerous."
I hold the thing impossible.




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