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“Placebo” “Justinus”
Major point of debate has been introduced with a marriage in all age is a risk of benefit and what is the true purpose of marriage?
-Support for the arguments on all sides have been drawn from popular proverbial wisdom and learn authority
-The passage opens by indicating there is a lot of conflicting advice available in which in the end offer is nothing but confusion uncertainty
-The whole narrative mode turns to personification allegory
-They both represent only the two sides of debate on marriage but two kinds of friendly advice
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“ i have been a good courtier all my life” “ your owne council is the best”
Placebo of flattery he also expresses a view that wise men should not presume to advise their elders and social superiors if they want to get on in life
-Placebo is the archetypical flatterer familiar to traces original audience from court satire
- placebo and justinus representing the abstract properties of good and bad advice I drawn from court satire and contemporary advice literature in which the recipient usually a print is told how to choose good counsellor to avoid flatterers whose motives is the advancement of their own careers
-this element may have some topical residence for choice’s original audience as the king at the time Richard the second notorious surrounded himself with self seeking young favourites against the advice of elder statesman at court
Placebo=‘i shall please’ in Latin
- meaningless worthless advice
“ i have never with noon of hem debate” “ i never hem contradicted truly’
Joseph was well acquainted with court
-It’s the idea that lots of flattery in court gains benefit
-Could be a satirical poke at court politics
- he is a sycophant
