It ebbs and flows seven times every day: the reason of which, it is said, when Aristotle could not find, he threw himself into the sea with these words: Quia ego non capio te, tu capias me.

Arma amens capio, nec sat rationis in armis.

Plus capio voluptatis, &c. 3330.

Plus capio voluptatis inde, quam spectandis in theatro ludis.

In this soliloquy Heywood closely follows Plautus: see Rudens, i. 3, "Hanccine ego partem capio ob pietatem praecipuam," &c. Three cancelled lines follow in the MS.: