Felices essent artes, si nulli de eis judicarent nisi artifices. (Mr. Maynard.)
He thinks the statut of wills will be as greate a nurse of controversies as the statut of tayles and uses in common. The eggs are layd, and are nowe in hatching. (Idem.)
fo. 119.
1 Aprill.Wee are purged from our corruption, non per gratiam naturæ, sed per naturam gratiæ. (Dr. Dod.)
Wee worshipt noe Saints, but wee prayd to Ladyes, in the Queenes tyme. (Mr. Curle.) This superstition shall be abolished we hope in our Kings raigne.
One reading Horace happened upon that verse:
Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima
Stultitia caruisse.[177]
"Here is strange matter," said he, "Virtus est vitium." "Read on," said another. "Nay first lett us examine this;" and would not goe a word further. "Nay," said the other, "yf you gather such notes, I will find another as strange as that in the same verse, 'Et sapientia prima stultitia.'" (T. Cranmer.)
Natura brevium. (Fitch.) The nature of pigmies (said B. Rudyerd).
3. Dr. Spenser upon the 1 Mark, v. 29 to the 36.
Christs Sabboths dayes work, to cure the diseased; a miracle, a work of his mercy, that he would of his power that he could.