CHAPTER IV The proposal to have a common home
CHAPTER IV
The proposal to have a common home
7. Nevertheless, being a good man, and valuing my friendship highly, he separated himself from all others, and continued always with me. Of this he had been desirous before, but, as I said, he was prevented by my remissness.
8. For it could not be that one who frequented the court of justice, and followed the pleasures of the stage, should be very often in the company of one who was attached to his books, and never came into public.
9. Therefore, though prevented before, yet when he welcomed me into the same manner of life as his own, he speedily brought forth the desire he had long travailed with, and did not endure to leave me even the smallest part of the day, and went on entreating that each should leave his own home, and that we should have a common residence. Well, he persuaded me, and the event was at hand.