"Fleas, flies, and friars, are masters who sadly the people abuse,
And thistles and briars are sure growing grains to abuse.
O Christ, who hatest strife and slayst all things in peace,
Destroy where'er are rife, briars, friars, flies and fleas.
Fleas, flies, and friars foul fall them these fifteen years
For none that there is loveth fleas, flies, nor freres."
[668] "It is my plan to restore to an unskilled race the worthy arts of a better life."
[669] The first sentences of the first oration of Cicero against Catiline: "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" (How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience?) "Quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?" (How long will this your madness baffle us?) "Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, ... nihil horum ora voltusque moverunt?" (Does the night watch of the Palatium, ... do the faces and expressions of all these men fail to move you?) "In te conferri ..." (This plague should have been inflicted upon you long ago, which you have plotted against us so long.)
[670] "Beware of the things that are marked."