Wherefore towards night being very weary, I went to the Baines to refresh my selfe, and behold, I fortuned to espy my companion Socrates sitting upon the ground, covered with a torn and course mantle; who was so meigre and of so sallow and miserable a countenance, that I Scantly knew him: for fortune had brought him into such estate and calamity, that he verily seemed as a common begger that standeth in the streets to crave the benevolence of the passers by.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
Psyches had Scantly finished her tale but her sister pierced with the pricke of carnall desire and wicked envy ran home, and feigning to her husband that she had heard word of the death of her parents tooke shipping and came to the mountaine.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
You would have given away what she could not keep; you would have put out of your power what would not be in hers; and on the whole, she would be Scantly a gainer and the world would be a loser.
"Hills of the Shatemuc"
Susan Warner