Oxford.
"_Haud cum Jesu itis, qui itis cum Jesuitis._"--In "N. & Q." for Feb. 7,
1852, a correspondent, L. H. J. T., asks for some clue to the above. Last
March a friend of mine purchased in Paris, at a book-stall on the Quai
D'Orsay, a manuscript book, very beautifully written, and in the old
binding of the time, which appears to be the transcript of a printed
volume. Its title is _Le Jésuit sécularisé_. A Cologne: chez Jacques
Milebram. 1683.
It is a dialogue between "Dorval, abbé et docteur en th^e, et Maimbourg,
Jésuit sécularisé;" and at the end (p. 197.) is a long Latin ballad,
entitled "Canticum Jesuiticum," filling eight small 8vo. pages, the opening
stanza of which is
"Opulentas civitates
Ubi sunt commoditates
Semper quærunt isti patres."
And the conclusion of the whole is, in effect, the line of which your
correspondent speaks:
"Vita namque Christiana
Abhorret ab hâc doctrinâ
Tanquam fictâ et insanâ.
_Ergo_
Vos qui cum Jesu itis,
Non ite cum Jesuitis."
I should be glad to be certified by any of your correspondents of the
actual existence of the printed volume, which probably was sought for and
destroyed by the authorities on account of its pestilent contents.