[82] Ibid. i. 290.
[83] Warton’s Hist. of English Poetry, i. 296.
[84] Erasm. Colloq. Franciscani. Chaucer.
[85] Milton, i. 80. Prose Works, Burnett’s ed. Bishop Jewel argues the question more practically than Milton; and, allowing that there are many who would teach Christ for Christ’s sake, looks onward to posterity, and asks of fathers, whether their own zeal will cause them to “keep their children at school until four and twenty years old, at their own charges, that in the end they may live in glorious poverty? that they may live poorly and naked, like the prophets and the apostles?” and he foretells that the event would be a lapse into ignorance—Serm. on Ps. lxix. 9.
[86] Erasm. Colloq. Franciscani.
[87] Leges Inæ, 1. Aluredi, 23, 24. Edmundi, 57. Edgari, 62. Bede’s Eccl. Hist. 178. 291. See also Sharon Turner’s Anglo-Saxons, iii. 248. et seq.
[88] Essay upon the Government of the Church of England, by George Reynolds, 27.
[89] Reynolds, 30.
[90] Bede’s Eccl. Hist. 447.
[91] Reynolds, 31.