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.