"Do all the learned of that religion in heart approve that commonly
reported saying of Leo X., '_Quantum profuit nobis fabula Christi_,'
and yet resolve (as Cardinal Carafa did, _Quoniam populus iste vult
decipi, decipiatur_) to puzzle the people in their
credulity?"--_Works_, vol. i. p. 585.: Lond. 1673, fol.
The margin directs me to the following passage in Thuanus:
"Inde Carafa Lutetiam regni metropolim tanquam Pontificis legatus
solita pompa ingreditur, ubi cum signum crucis, ut fit, ederet,
verborum, quae proferri mos est, loco, ferunt eum, ut erat securo de
numine animo et summus religionis derisor, occursante passim populo et
in genua ad ipsius conspectum procumbente, saepius secreta murmuratione
haec verba ingeminasse: _Quandoquidem populus iste vult decipi,
decipiatur_."--_Histor._, lib. xvii., ad ann. 1556, vol. i. p. 521.:
Genevae, 1626, fol.