Fayth is the evidence of things not seene; as wee hold our temporall inheritance by our writinges, which we call our evidence, soe wee clayme our eternall inheritaunce in the heavens by fayth, which is our evidence. (On King at Paules.)
Risus potest esse causa aliqua, irrisus nulla.
Irridere bona nefas, mala crudelitas, media stultitia, probos impium, improbos sæuum, notos immanitas, ignotos dementia, denique hominem inhumanum. (Lodou. Vives, ad Sap: intr. 439.)[165]
E bestijs, exiatiatis maxime ferarum est invidia mansuetarum assentatio. (Idem.)[166]
fo. 103b.
28 Feb. One said of Rochester that it had been an auncient towne, as though it were not more auncient by continuance. (H. Gellibrand narr.)
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Dr. Couels booke which he wrote as an appology of Mr. Hooker[167] may be sayd to be all heaven, butt yett Mr. Hookers sentences and discourses intermixed are the stars and constellations, the speciall ornaments of it.
One discoursing of a gentleman, Dr. Cæsars wiues first husband, that had bin imployed as a Ligier in France; "I well belleeve it," sayd another, "that he hath bin a lecher in Fraunce."
Dr. Cæsars wife was at first but a mayd servant in London; till advanct by hir first marriage. When hir Majesty dyned at Dr. Cæsars, shee gave his wife a checke, because in hir widdowhood she refused to speake with a courtier whom hir Majesty had commended to hir.