4439.  Prooemio in Isaim.  Multo major pars Milesias fabulas revolventium
      quam Platonis libros.

4440.  “This he took to be his only business, that the plays which he wrote
      should please the people.”

4441.  In vita philosophus, in Epigram, amator, in Epistolis petulanus, in
      praeceptis severus.

4442.  “The poet himself should be chaste and pious, but his verses need not
      imitate him in these respects; they may therefore contain wit and
      humour.”

4443.  “This that I write depends sometimes upon the opinion and authority
      of others:  nor perhaps am I frantic, I only follow madmen:  But thus
      far I may be deranged:  we have all been so at some one time, and
      yourself, I think, art sometimes insane, and this man, and that man,
      and I also.”

4444.  “I am mortal, and think no humane action unsuited to me.”

4445.  Mart.

4446.  Ovid.

4447.  Isago. ad sac. scrip. cap. 13.

4448.  Barthius notis in Coelestinam, ludum Hisp.

4449.  Ficinus Comment. c. 17.  Amore incensi inveniendi amoris, aniorem
      quaesivimus et invenimus.

4450.  Author Coelestinae Barth. interprete.  “That, overcome by the
      solicitations of friends, who requested me to enlarge and improve my
      volumes, I have devoted my otherwise reluctant mind to the labour;
      and now for the sixth time have I taken up my pen, and applied myself
      to literature very foreign indeed to my studies and professional
      occupations, stealing a few hours from serious pursuits, and devoting
      them, as it were, to recreation.”

4451.  Hor. lib. 1.  Ode 34.  “I am compelled to reverse my sails, and retrace
      my former course.”

4452.  “Although I was by no means ignorant that new calumniators would not
      be wanting to censure my new introductions.”

4453.  Haec praedixi ne quis temere nos putaret scripsisse de amorum
      lenociniis, de praxi, fornicationibus, adulteriis, &c.

4454.  Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et
      remedia docendo:  non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. 
      Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa
      lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis
      (Aeneas Sylv.) et curam amoris si quis nescit hinc poterit scire.

4455.  Martianus Capella lib. 1. de nupt. philol. virginali suffusa rubore
      oculos peplo obnubens, &c.

4456.  Catullus.  “What I tell you, do you tell to the multitude, and make
      this treatise gossip like an old woman.”

4457.  Viros nudos castae feminae nihil a statuis distare.

4458.  Hony soit qui mal y pense.

4459.  Praef.  Suid.

4460.  “O Arethusa smile on this my last labour.”