[191] Eras. Epist. xliv.
[192] Erasmus Sixtino, Epist. xliv. Op. iii. p. 42, C.
[193] See his colloquy, Ichthyophagia, in which he describes his college experience at Paris, especially his physical hardships. The latter are probably caricatured, and perhaps too much magnified for the description to be taken literally.
[194] Erasmus to Lord Mountjoy: Epist. xlii. Oxoniæ, 1498.
[195] ‘Beatus Rhenanus Cæsari Carolo.’—Eras. Op. i. leaf * * * 1.
[196] Eras. Op. iii. p. 458, D and E.
[197] Eras. Op. iii. pt. 1, p. 459, F.
[198] ‘Siquidem magnum erat, Coletum, in ea fortuna, constanter sequutum esse, non quo vocabat natura, sed quo Christus,’ &c.—Ibid. p. 461, E.
[199] See the following extract from the colloquy of Erasmus, ‘Pietas puerilis,’ edition Argent. 1522, leaf e, 4, and Basileæ, 1526, p. 92, and Eras. Op. i. p. 653.
‘Erasmus. Many abstain from divinity because they are afraid lest they should waver in the catholic faith, when they see there is nothing which is not called in question.