Do we believe that choirboys greatly enjoy the music or rather that, being glutted with it, they find it boring? Feasting and dancing, masquerades and tournaments give delight to those who do not often see them and who were yearning to see them; but for a man who attends them regularly they become tasteless and disagreeable. Nor do women excite a man who has enjoyed them until his mind is sated; if a man does not give himself time to get thirsty he will never enjoy drinking.20 We enjoy farces: they are drudgery to the travelling players. As proof of this, it is a treat and feast for princes to
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