A man is happy to hear that what comedians say on stage is just common talk that everyone understands. Why else would it be fine when virtues are called good, but when someone praises wealth, pleasure, or honor, we take it as just a joke? Keep thinking about this. Consider whether those things that get mocked on stage might actually reveal something true. The comedians joke that rich people have so much stuff they don't even have a private place to relieve themselves. Maybe those jokes show us that these things we chase aren't really worth much at all.
He is well contented to hear, that what is spoken by the comedian, is but familiarly and popularly spoken, so that even the vulgar apprehend the difference. For why is it else, that this offends not and needs not to be excused, when virtues are styled good: but that which is spoken in commendation of wealth, pleasure, or honour, we entertain it only as merrily and pleasantly spoken? Proceed therefore, and inquire further, whether it may not be that those things also which being mentioned upon the stage were merrily, and with great applause of the multitude, scoffed at with this jest, that they that possessed them had not in all the world of their own, (such was their affluence and plenty) so much as a place where to avoid their excrements. Whether, I say, those ought not also in very deed to be much respected, and esteemed of, as the only things that are truly good.