and  Euripides  hissed  off  the  stage,  and  that,  at  the  close
of  the  piece,  they  are  waiting  to  tell  you : — '  What  has
thus  exhausted  your  patience  is  the  ancient  drama!'
Euripides,  it  is  true,  was  but  too  fond  of  introducing
moral  sentences  and  philosophical  dissertations :  but  each
of  his  maxims,  compared  with  Rucellai's,  is  but  as  a  text
to  its  commentary.
