ymer, vol. xii. p. 204, the marquis of
Dorset is reproached with these connections. This reproach, however,
might have been invented by Richard, or founded only on popular rumor;
and is not sufficient to overbalance the authority of Sir Thomas More.
The proclamation is remarkable for the hypocritical purity of manners
affected by Richard. This bloody and treacherous tyrant upbraids the
marquis and others with their gallantries and intrigues as the most
terrible enormities.]

[Footnote 21: NOTE U, p., 507. Every one that has perused the ancient
monkish writers know that, however barbarous their own style, they are
full of allusions to the Latin classics, especially the poets. There
seems also in those middle ages to have remained many ancient books that
are now lost. Maimesbury, who flourished in the reign of Henry I. and
King Stephen, quotes Livy's description of Caesar's passage over the
Rubicon. Fitz-Stephen, who lived in the reign of Henry II., alludes to
a passage in the larger history of Sallust. In the collection of letters
which passes under the name of Thomas a Becket, we see how familiar all
the ancient history and ancient books were to the more ingenious and
more dignified churchmen of that time, and consequently how much that
order of men must have surpassed all the other members of the society.
That prelate and his friends call each other philosophers in all the
course of their correspondence, and consider the rest of the world as
sunk in total ignorance and barbarism.]

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