[Footnote 2: It appeared in the No. for May 15, 1849.--ED.]
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"POPULUS VULT DECIPI."
(Vol. vii., p. 572.)
If MR. TEMPLE will turn to p. 141. of Mathias Prideaux's _Easy and
Compendious Introduction for reading all Sorts of Histories_, 6th edit.,
Oxford, 1682, small 4to., he will find his Query thus answered:
"It was this Pope's [Paul IV.] Legate, _Cardinal Carafa_, that gave
this blessing to the devout Parisians, _Quandoquidem populus decipi
vult, decipiatur_. Inasmuch as this people _will_ be deceived, let them
be deceived."
This book of Prideaux's is full of mottoes, of which I shall give a few
instances. Of Frederick Barbarosa "his saying was, _Qui nescit dissimulare,
nescit imperare_:" of Justinian "His word was, _Summum jus, summa
injuria_--The rigour of the law may prove injurious to conscience:" of
Theodosius II. "His motto was, _Tempori parendum_--We must fit us (as far
as it may be done with a good conscience) to the time wherein we live, with
Christian prudence:" of Nerva "His motto sums {622} up his excellencies,
_Mens bona regnum possidet_--My mind to me a kingdom is:" of Richard Coeur
de Lion, "The motto of _Dieu et mon droit_ is attributed to him; ascribing
the victory he had at Gisors against the French, not to himself, but to God
and His might."