18.
1931. In lib. 8.
1932. De ponte dejicere.
1933. Sueton. lib. degram.
1934. Nihil libenter audiunt, nisi laudes suas.
1935. Epis. 56. Nihil aliud dies noctesque cogitant nisi ut in studiis
suis laudentur ab hominibus.
1936. Quae major dementia aut dici, aut excogitari potest, quam sic ob
gloriam cruciari? Insaniam istam domine longe fac a me. Austin. cons.
lib. 10. cap. 37.
1937. As Camelus in the novel, who lost his ears while he was looking
for a pair of horns.
1938. Mart. l. 5. 51.
1939. Hor. Sat. 1. l. 2.
1940. Lib. cont. Philos. cap. 1.
1941. Tul. som. Scip.
1942. Boethius.
1943. Putean. Cisalp. hist. lib. 1.
1944. Plutarch. Lycurgo.
1945. Epist. 13. Illud te admoneo, ne eorum more facias, qui non
proficere, sed conspici cupiunt, quae in habitu tuo, aut genere vitae
notabilia sunt. Asperum cultum et vitiosum caput, negligentiorem
barbam, indictum argento odium, cubile humi positum, et quicquid ad
laudem perversa via sequitur evita.
1946. Per.
1947. Quis vero tam bene modulo suo metiri se novit, ut eum assiduae et
immodicae laudationes non moveant? Hen. Steph.
1948. Mart.
1949. Stroza. If you will accept divine honours, we will willingly
erect and consecrate altars to you.
1950. Justin.
1951. Livius. Gloria tantum elatus, non ira, in medios hostes irruere,
quod completis muris conspici se pugnantem, a muro spectantibus,
egregium ducebat.
1952. Applauded virtue grows apace, and glory includes within it an
immense impulse.
1953. I demens, et suevas curre per Alpes, Aude Aliquid, &c. ut pueris
placeas, et declamatio fias. Juv. Sat. 10.
1954. In moriae Encom.
1955. Juvenal. Sat. 4.
1956. There is nothing which overlauded power will not presume to
imagine of itself.
1957. Sueton. c. 12. in Domitiano.
1958. Brisonius.
1959. Antonius ab assentatoribus evectus Librum se patrem apellari
jussit, et pro deo se venditavit redimitus hedera, et corona velatus
aurea, et thyrsum tenens, cothurnisque succinctus curru velut Liber
pater vectus est Alexandriae. Pater. vol. post.
1960. Minervae nuptias ambit, tanto furore percitus, ut satellites
mitteret ad videndum num dea in thalamis venisset, &c.
1961. Aelian. li. 12.
1962. De mentis alienat. cap. 3.
1963. Sequiturque superbia formam. Livius li. 11. Oraculum est, vivida
saepe ingenia, luxuriare hac et evanescere multosque sensum penitus
amisisse. Homines intuentur, ac si ipsi non essent homines.
1964. Galeus de rubeis, civis noster faber ferrarius, ob inventionem
instrumenti Cocleae olim Archimedis dicti, prae laetitia insanivit.
1965. Insania postmodum correptus, ob nimiam inde arrogantiam.
1966. Bene ferre magnam disce fortunam Hor. Fortunam reverenter habe,
quicunque repente Dives ab exili progrediere loco. Ausonius.
1967. Processit squalidus et submissus, ut hesterni Diei gaudium
intemperans hodie castigaret.
1968. Uxor Hen. 8.
1969. Neutrius se fortunae extremum libenter experturam dixit: sed si
necessitas alterius subinde imponeretur, optare se difficilem et
adversam: quod in hac nulli unquam defuit solatium, in altera multis
consilium, &c. Lod. Vives.
1970. Peculiaris furor, qui ex literis fit.
1971. Nihil magis auget, ac assidua studia, et profundae cogitationes.
1972. Non desunt, qui ex jugi studio, et intempestiva lucubratione, huc
devenerunt, hi prae caeteris enim plerunque melancholia solent
infestari.
1973. Study is a continual and earnest meditation, applied to something
with great desire. Tully.
1974. Et illi qui sunt subtilis ingenii, et multae praemeditationis, de
facili incidunt in melancholiam.
1975. Ob studiorum solicitudinem lib. 5. Tit. 5.
1976. Gaspar Ens Thesaur Polit. Apoteles. 31. Graecis hanc pestem
relinquite quae dubium non est, quin brevi omnem iis vigorem ereptura
Martiosque spiritus exhaustura sit; Ut ad arma tractanda plane
inhabiles futuri sint.
1977. Knoles Turk. Hist.
1978. Acts, xxvi. 24.
1979. Nimiis studiis melancholicus evasit, dicens se Biblium in capite
habere.
1980. Cur melancholia assidua, crebrisque deliramentis vexentur eorum
animi ut desipere cogantur.
1981. Solers quilibet artifex instrumenta sua diligentissime curat,
penicellos pictor; malleos incudesque faber ferrarius; miles equos,
arma venator, auceps aves, et canes, Cytharam Cytharaedus, &c. soli
musarum mystae tam negligentes sunt, ut instrumentum illud quo mundum
universum metiri solent, spiritum scilicet, penitus negligere
videantur.
1982. Arcus et arma tibi non sunt imitanda Dianae. Si nunquam cesses
tendere mollis erit. Ovid.
1983. Ephemer.
1984. Contemplatio cerebrum exsiccat et extinguit calorem naturalem,
unde cerebrum frigidum et siccum evadit quod est melancholicum. Accedit
ad hoc, quod natura in contemplatione, cerebro prorsus cordique
intenta, stomachum heparque destituit, unde ex alimentis male coctis,
sanguis crassus et niger efficitur, dum nimio otio membrorum superflui
vapores non exhalant.
1985. Cerebrum exsiccatur, corpora sensim gracilescunt.
1986. Studiosi sunt Cacectici et nunquam bene colorati, propter
debilitatem digestivae facultatis, multiplicantur in iis
superfluitates. Jo. Voschius parte 2. cap. 5. de peste.
1987. Nullus mihi per otium dies exit, partem noctis studiis dedico,
non vero somno, sed oculos vigilia fatigatos cadentesque, in operam
detineo.
1988. Johannes Hanuschias Bohemus. nat. 1516. eruditus vir, nimiis
studiis in Phrenesin incidit. Montanus instances in a Frenchman of
Tolosa.
1989. Cardinalis Caecius; ob laborem, vigiliam, et diuturna studia
factus Melancholicus.
1990. Perls. Sat. 3. They cannot fiddle; but, as Themistocles said, he
could make a small town become a great city.
1991. Perls. Sat.
1992. Ingenium sibi quod vanas desumpsit Athenas et septem studiis
annos dedit, insenuitque. Libris et curis statua taciturnius exit,
Plerunque et risu populum quatit, Hor. ep. 1. lib. 2.
1993. Translated by M. B. Holiday.
1994. Thomas rubore confusus dixit se de argumento cogitasse.
1995. Plutarch. vita Marcelli, Nec sensit urbem captam, nec milites in
domum irruentes, adeo intentus studiis, &c.
1996. Sub Furiae larva circumivit urbem, dictitans se exploratorem ab
inferis venisse, delaturum daemonibus mortalium pecata.
1997. Petronius. Ego arbitror in scholis stultissimos fieri, quia nihil
eorum quae in usu habemus aut audiunt aut vident.
1998. Novi meis diebus, plerosque studiis literarum deditos, qui
disciplinis admodum abundabant, sed si nihil civilitatis habent, nec
rem publ. nec domesticam regere norant. Stupuit Paglarensis et furti
vilicum accusavit, qui suem foetam undecim pocellos, asinam unum
duntaxat pullam enixam retulerat.
1999. Lib. 1. Epist. 3. Adhuc scholasticus tantum est; quo genere
hominum, nihil aut est simplicius, aut sincerius aut melius.
2000. Jure privilegiandi, qui ob commune bonum abbreviant sibi vitam.
2001. Virg. 6. Aen.
2002. Plutarch, vita ejus. Certum agricolationis lucrum, &c.
2003. Quotannis fiunt consules et proconsules. Rex et Poeta quotannis
non nascitur.
2004. Mat. 21.
2005. Hor. epis. 20. l. 1.
2006. Lib 1. de contem. amor.
2007. Satyricon.
2008. Juv, Sat. 5.
2009. Ars colit astra.
2010. Aldrovandus de Avibus. l. 12. Gesner, &c.
2011. Literas habent queis sibi et fortunae suae maledicant. Sat.
Menip.
2012. Lib. de libris Propriis fol. 24.
2013. Praefat translat. Plutarch.
2014. Polit. disput. laudibus extollunt eos ac si virtutibus pollerent
quos ob infinita scelera potius vituperare oporteret.
2015. Or as horses know not their strength, they consider not their own
worth.
2016. Plura ex Simonidis familiaritate Hieron consequutus est, quam ex
Hieronis Simonides.
2017. Hor. lib. 4. od. 9.
2018. Inter inertes et Plebeios fere jacet, ultimum locum habens, nisi
tot artis virtutisque insignia, turpiter, obnoxie, supparisitando
fascibus subjecerit protervae insolentisque potentiae, Lib. I. de
contempt. rerum fortuitarum.
2019. Buchanan. eleg. lib.
2020. In Satyricon. intrat senex, sed culta non ita speciosus, ut
facile appararet eum hac nota literatum esse, quos divites odisse
solent. Ego inquit Poeta sum: Quare ergo tam male vestitus es? Propter
hoc ipsum; amor ingenii neminem unquam divitem fecit.
2021. Petronius Arbiter.
2022. Oppressus paupertate animus nihil eximium, aut sublime cogitare
potest, amoenitates literarum, aut elegantiam, quoniam nihil praesidii
in his ad vitae commodum videt, primo negligere, mox odisse incipit.
Hens.
2023. Epistol. quaest. lib. 4. Ep. 21.
2024. Ciceron. dial. lib. 2.
2025. Epist. lib. 2.
2026. Ja. Dousa Epodon. lib. 2. car. 2.
2027. Plautus.
2028. Barc. Argenis lib. 3.
2029. Joh. Howson 4 Novembris 1597. the sermon was printed by Arnold
Hartfield.
2030. Pers. Sat. 3.
2031. E lecto exsilientes, ad subitum tintinnabuli plausum quasi
fulmine territi. I.
2032. Mart.
2033. Mart.
2034. Sat. Menip.
2035. Lib. 3. de cons.
2036. I had no money, I wanted impudence, I could not scramble,
temporise, dissemble: non pranderet olus, &c. vis dicam, ad palpandum
et adulandum penitus insulsus, recudi non possum, jam senior ut sim
talis, et fingi nolo, utcunque male cedat in rem meam et obscurus inde
delitescam.
2037. Vit. Crassi. nec facile judicare potest utrum pauperior cum primo
ad Crassum, &c.
2038. Deum habent iratum, sibique mortem aeternam acquirunt, aliis
miserabilem ruinam. Serrarius in Josuam, 7. Euripides.
2039. Nicephorus lib. 10. cap. 5.
2040. Lord Cook, in his Reports, second part, fol. 44.
2041. Euripides.
2042. Sir Henry Spelman, de non temerandis Ecclesiis.
2043. 1 Tim. 42.
2044. Hor.
2045. Primum locum apud omnes gentes habet patritius deorum cultus, et
geniorum, nam hunc diutissime custodiunt, tam Graeci quam Barbari, &c.
2046. Tom. 1. de steril. trium annorum sub Elia sermone.
2047. Ovid. Fast.
2048. De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres.
2049. Strabo. lib. 4. Geog.
2050. Nihil facilius opes evertet, quam avaritia et fraude parta. Et si
enim seram addas tali arcae et exteriore janua et vecte eam communias,
intus tamen fraudem et avaritiam, &c. In 5. Corinth.
2051. Acad. cap. 7.
2052. Ars neminem habet inimicum praeter ignorantem.
2053. He that cannot dissemble cannot live.
2054. Epist. quest. lib. 4. epist. 21. Lipsius.
2055. Dr. King, in his last lecture on Jonah, sometime right reverend
lord bishop of London.
2056. Quibus opes et otium, hi barbaro fastu literas contemnunt.
2057. Lucan. lib. 8.
2058. Spartian. Soliciti de rebus minis.
2059. Nicet. 1. Anal. Fumis lucubrationum sordebant.
2060. Grammaticis olim et dialecticis Jurisque Professoribus, qui
specimen eruditionis dedissent eadem dignitatis insignia decreverunt
Imperatores, quibus ornabant heroas. Erasm. ep. Jo. Fabio epis. Vien.
2061. Probus vir et Philosophus magis praestat inter alios homines,
quam rex inclitus inter plebeios.
2062. Heinsius praefat. Poematum.
2063. Servile nomen Scholaris jam.
2064. Seneca.
2065. Haud facile emergunt, &c.
2066. Media quod noctis ab hora sedisti qua nemo faber, qua nemo
sedebat, qui docet obliquo lanam deducere ferro: rara tamen merces.
Juv. Sat. 7.
2067. Chil. 4. Cent. 1. adag. J.
2068. Had I done as others did, put myself forward, I might have haply
been as great a man as many of my equals.
2069. Catullus, Juven.
2070. All our hopes and inducements to study are centred in Caesar
alone.
2071. Nemo est quem non Phaebus hic noster, solo intuitu lubentiorem
reddat.
2072. Panegyr.
2073. Virgil.
2074. Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna. Juv. Sat. 8.
2075. Quis enim generosum dixerit hunc que Indignus genere, et
praeclaro nomine tantum, Insignis. Juve. Sat. 8.
2076. I have often met with myself, and conferred with divers worthy
gentlemen in the country, no whit inferior, if not to be preferred for
divers kinds of learning to many of our academics.
2077. Ipse licet Musis venias comitatus Homere, Nil tamen attuleris,
ibis Homere foras.
2078. Et legat historicos auctores, noverit omnes Tanquam ungues
digitosque suos. Juv. Sat. 7.
2079. Juvenal.
2080. Tu vero licet Orpheus sis, saxa sono testudinis emolliens, nisi
plumbea eorum corda, auri vel argenti malleo emollias, &c.
Salisburiensis Policrat. lib. 5. c. 10.
2081. 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 life
Like those who boldly woo'd Ulysses' wife;
Born to consume the fruits of earth: in truth,
As vain and idle as Pheacia's youth;
only let them have passed the stipulated period in the University, and
professed themselves collegians: either for the sake of profit, or
through the influence of their friends, they obtain a presentation;
nay, sometimes even accompanied by brilliant eulogies upon their
morals and acquirements; and when they are about to take leave, they
are honoured with the most flattering literary testimonials in their
favour, by those who undoubtedly sustain a loss of reputation in
granting them. For doctors and professors (as an author says) are
anxious about one thing only, viz., that out of their various callings
they may promote their own advantage, and convert the public loss into
their private gains. For our annual officers wish this only, that
those who commence, whether they are taught or untaught is of no
moment, shall be sleek, fat, pigeons, worth the plucking. The
Philosophastic are admitted to a degree in Arts, because they have no
acquaintance with them. And they are desired to be wise men, because
they are endowed with no wisdom, and bring no qualification for a
degree, except the wish to have it. The Theologastic (only let them
pay) thrice learned, are promoted to every academic honour. Hence it
is that so many vile buffoons, so many idiots everywhere, placed in
the twilight of letters, the mere ghosts of scholars, wanderers in the
market place, vagrants, barbels, mushrooms, dolts, asses, a growling
herd, with unwashed feet, break into the sacred precincts of theology,
bringing nothing along with them but an impudent front, some vulgar
trifles and foolish scholastic technicalities, unworthy of respect
even at the crossing of the highways. This is the unworthy, vagrant,
voluptuous race, fitter for the hog sty (haram) than the altar (aram),
that basely prostitute divine literature; these are they who fill the
pulpits, creep into the palaces of our nobility after all other
prospects of existence fail them, owing to their imbecility of body
and mind, and their being incapable of sustaining any other parts in
the commonwealth; to this sacred refuge they fly, undertaking the
office of the ministry, not from sincerity, but as St. Paul says,
huckstering the word of God. Let not any one suppose that it is here
intended to detract from those many exemplary men of which the Church
of England may boast, learned, eminent, and of spotless fame, for they
are more numerous in that than in any other church of Europe: nor from
those most learned universities which constantly send forth men endued
with every form of virtue. And these seminaries would produce a still
greater number of inestimable scholars hereafter if sordidness did not
obscure the splendid light, corruption interrupt, and certain
truckling harpies and beggars envy them their usefulness. Nor can any
one be so blind as not to perceive this—any so stolid as not to
understand it—any so perverse as not to acknowledge how sacred
Theology has been contaminated by those notorious idiots, and the
celestial Muse treated with profanity. Vile and shameless souls (says
Luther) for the sake of gain, like flies to a milk-pail, crowd round
the tables of the nobility in expectation of a church living, any
office, or honour, and flock into any public hall or city ready to
accept of any employment that may offer. A thing of wood and wires by
others played. Following the paste as the parrot, they stutter out
anything in hopes of reward: obsequious parasites, says Erasmus,
teach, say, write, admire, approve, contrary to their conviction,
anything you please, not to benefit the people but to improve their
own fortunes. They subscribe to any opinions and decisions contrary to
the word of God, that they may not offend their patron, but retain the
favour of the great, the applause of the multitude, and thereby
acquire riches for themselves; for they approach Theology, not that
they may perform a sacred duty, but make a fortune: nor to promote the
interests of the church, but to pillage it: seeking, as Paul says, not
the things which are of Jesus Christ, but what may be their own: not
the treasure of their Lord, but the enrichment of themselves and their
followers. Nor does this evil belong to those of humbler birth and
fortunes only, it possesses the middle and higher ranks, _bishops
excepted_. O Pontiffs, tell the efficacy of gold in sacred matters!
Avarice often leads the highest men astray, and men, admirable in all
other respects: these find a salvo for simony; and, striking against
this rock of corruption, they do not shear but flay the flock; and,
wherever they teem, plunder, exhaust, raze, making shipwreck of their
reputation, if not of their souls also. Hence it appears that this
malady did not flow from the humblest to the highest classes, but
_vice versa_, so that the maxim is true although spoken in jest—he
bought first, therefore has the best right to sell. For a Simoniac
(that I may use the phraseology of Leo) has not received a favour;
since he has not received one he does not possess one; and since he
does not possess one he cannot confer one. So far indeed are some of
those who are placed at the helm from promoting others, that they
completely obstruct them, from a consciousness of the means by which
themselves obtained the honour. For he who imagines that they emerged
from their obscurity through their learning, is deceived; indeed,
whoever supposes promotion to be the reward of genius, erudition,
experience, probity, piety, and poetry (which formerly was the case,
but nowadays is only promised) is evidently deranged. How or when this
malady commenced, I shall not further inquire; but from these
beginnings, this accumulation of vices, all her calamities and
miseries have been brought upon the Church; hence such frequent acts
of simony, complaints, fraud, impostures— from this one fountain
spring all its conspicuous iniquities. I shall not press the question
of ambition and courtly flattery, lest they may be chagrined about
luxury, base examples of life, which offend the honest, wanton
drinking parties, &c. Yet; hence is that academic squalor, the muses
now look sad, since every low fellow ignorant of the arts, by those
very arts rises, is promoted, and grows rich, distinguished by
ambitious titles, and puffed up by his numerous honours; he just shows
himself to the vulgar, and by his stately carriage displays a species
of majesty, a remarkable solicitude, letting down a flowing beard,
decked in a brilliant toga resplendent with purple, and respected also
on account of the splendour of his household and number of his
servants. There are certain statues placed in 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.
2118. Nutrix non sit lasciva aut temulenta. Hier.
2119. Prohibendum ne stolida lactet.
2120. Pers.
2121. Nutrices interdum matribus sunt meliores.
2122. Lib. de morbis capitis, cap. de mania; Haud postrema causa
supputatur educatio, inter has mentis abalienationis causas. Injusta
noverca.
2123. Lib. 2. cap. 4.
2124. Idem. Et quod maxime nocet, dum in teneris ita timent nihil
conantur.