And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

Ver. 22. And I will yet be more vile.] This was bravely resolved. So when the proud prefect told Basil that he was mad, he answered, I wish to be mad in this manner always. a

a Opto me in aeternum sic delirare.

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