. Juven. Sat. 7.
2082. Euge bene, no need, Dousa epod. lib. 2.--dos ipsa scientia sibique
congiarium est.
2083. Quatuor ad portas Ecclesias itus ad omnes; sanguinis aut Simonis,
praesulis atque Dei. Holcot.
2084. Lib. contra Gentiles de Babila martyre.
2085. Praescribunt, imperant, in ordinem cogunt, ingenium nostrum prout
ipsis vicebitur, astriugunt et relaxant ut papilionem pueri aut
bruchum filo demitturit, aut attrahunt, nos a libidine sua pendere
aequum censentes. Heinsins.
2086. Joh. 5.
2087. Epist. lib. 2. Jam suffectus in locum demortui, protinus exortus est
adversarius, &c. post multos labores, sumptus, &c.
2088. Jun. Acad. cap. 6.
2089. Accipiamus pecuniam, demittamus asinum ut apud Patavinos, Italos.
2090. Hos non ita pridem perstrinxi, in Philosophastro Commaedia latina, in
Aede Christi Oxon, publice habita, Anno 1617. Feb. 16.
2091. Sat. Menip.
2092. 2 Cor. vii. 17.
2093. Comment. in Gal.
2094. Heinsius.
2095. Ecclesiast.
2096. Luth. in Gal.
2097. Pers. Sat. 2.
2098. Sallust.
2099. Sat. Menip.
2100. Budaeus de Asse, lib. 5.
2101. Lib. de rep. Gallorum.
2102. Campian.
2103. As for ourselves (for neither are we free from this fault) the same
guilt, the same crime, may be objected against us: for it is through
our fault, negligence, and avarice, that so many and such shameful
corruptions occur in the church (both the temple and the Deity are
offered for sale), that such sordidness is introduced, such impiety
committed, such wickedness, such a mad gulf of wretchedness and
irregularity--these I say arise from all our faults, but more
particularly from ours of the University. We are the nursery in which
those ills are bred with which the state is afflicted; we voluntarily
introduce them, and are deserving of every opprobrium and suffering,
since we do not afterwards encounter them according to our strength.
For what better can we expect when so many poor, beggarly fellows,
men of every order, are readily and without election, admitted to
degrees? Who, if they can only commit to memory a few definitions and
divisions, and pass the customary period in the study of logics, no
matter with what effect, whatever sort they prove to be, idiots,
triflers, idlers, gamblers, sots, sensualists,
----"mere ciphers in the book of
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