sacred edifices that seem to sink under
their load, and almost to perspire, when in reality they are void of
sensation, and do not contribute to the stony stability, so these men
would wish to look like Atlases, when they are no better than statues
of stone, insignificant scrubs, funguses, dolts, little different
from stone. Meanwhile really learned men, endowed with all that can
adorn a holy life, men who have endured the heat of mid-day, by some
unjust lot obey these, dizzards, content probably with a miserable
salary, known by honest appellations, humble, obscure, although
eminently worthy, needy, leading a private life without honour,
buried alive in some poor benefice, or incarcerated for ever in their
college chambers, lying hid ingloriously. But I am unwilling to stir
this sink any longer or any deeper; hence those tears, this
melancholy habit of the muses; hence (that I may speak with
Secellius) is it that religion is brought into disrepute and
contempt, and the priesthood abject; (and since this is so, I must
speak out and use a filthy witticism of the filthy) a foetid. crowd,
poor, sordid, melancholy, miserable, despicable, contemptible.

2104. Proem lib. 2. Nulla ars constitui poset.

2105. Lib. 1. c. 19. de morborum causis. Quas declinare licet aut nulla
necessitate utimur.

2106. Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu. Hor.

2107. Sicut valet ad fingendas corporis atque animi similitudines vis et
natura seminis, sic quoque lactis proprietas. Neque id in hominibus
solum, sed in pecudibus animadversum. Nam si ovium lacte hoedi, aut
caprarum agni alerentur, constat fieri in his lanam duriorem, in
illis capillum gigni severiorem.

2108. Adulta in ferarum persequatione ad miraculum usque sagax.

2109. Tam animal quodlibet quam homo, ab illa cujus lacte nutritur, naturam
contrahit.

2110. Improba, informis, impudica, temulenta, nutrix, &c. quoniam in
moribus efformandis magnam saepe partem igenium altricis et natura
lactis tenet.

2111. Hircanaeque admorunt ubera Tigres, Virg.

2112. Lib. 2. de Caesaribus.

2113. Beda c. 27. l. 1 Eccles. hist.

2114. Ne insitivo lactis alimento degeneret corpus, et animus corrumpatur.

2115. Lib. 3. de civ. convers.

2116. Stephanus.

2117. To. 2. Nutrices non quasvis, sed maxime probas deligamus.