Essentia operis est potentia creatoris. Here he stumbled into an invective against contempt of ministers, and impoverishing the clergy. Pharoes dreame is revived, the leane kine eate up the fatt, and were never the fatter. Laymens best liuings were the Church livings; yet the gentry come to beggery.
fo. 65b.
14 November, 1602.
Magnum solatium est magnum supplicium a magno impositum; but intollerable when the basest make it their cheife grace to disgrace the ministers.
Christ calls them the light of the world, and they are the children of darknes that would blowe it out.
Pride is a greate cause of unthankefullnes, when he shall thinke omne datum esse tuum officium et suum meritum.
Bishop Bonner made bonefires of the bones of saints and martyres in Queen Maries days.
Praysd our happy gouernment for peace and religion; and soe ended.
fo. 66.
21 November, 1602.Though a fashion of witt in writing may last longer then a fashion in a sute of clothes, yet yf a writer live long, and change not his fashion, he may perhaps outlive his best credit. It were good for such a man to dy quickly. (Of Dr. Reynolds; Th. Cranmer.)
Reynolds esteemes it his best glorie to quote an author for every sentence, nay almost every syllable; soe he may indeede shewe a great memory but small judgment. Alas, poore man! he does as yf a begger should come and pouer all his scraps out of his wallet at a riche mans table. He had done what he could, might tell where he had begd this peece and that peece, but all were but a beggerly shewe. He takes a speciall grace to use an old worne sentence, as though anie would like to be served with cockcrowen pottage,[124] or a man should like delight to have a garment of shreeds. (Cra. and I.)
The old deane of Paules, Nowell, told Dr. Holland that he did onerare, not honorare, eum laudibus.