Note 25 — VII ASPECTS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PHILOSOPHY[24]
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Tranio, the attendant on the young Pisan, Lucentio, who has come to Padua to study at the university, counsels his master to widen the field of his studies:—
Only, good master, while we do admire This virtue and this moral discipline, Let's be no Stoics, nor no stocks, I pray, Or so devote to Aristotle's checks, As Ovid be an outcast quite adjured. (The Taming of the Shrew, I., ii., 29-33.)