"Certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons."] The allusion is to Rev. iii.
14-16.
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"It is noted by one of the Fathers, Christ's coat indeed had no seam, but
the Church's vesture was of divers colours; whereupon he saith, 'in veste
varietas sit, scissura non sit.'"] Query, Who is the Father alluded to?
"The massacre in France."] _I. e._ the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
Essay IV. Of Revenge.--See _Antitheta_, No. 39. vol. viii. p. 374.
The saying of Cosmo, Duke of Florence, as to not forgiving friends,
recurs in the _Apophthegms_, vol. i. p. 394. ed. Montagu.