[58] Summary of the argument thus far.
[59] Objections stated and met.
[60] Cornelius Agrippa’s book, “De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum et Artium,” was first published in 1532; Erasmus’s “Moriæ Encomium” was written in a week, in 1510, and went in a few months through seven editions.
[61] The objection to rhyme and metre.
[62] The first of these sentences is from Horace (Epistle I. xviii. 69): “Fly from the inquisitive man, for he is a babbler.” The second, “While each pleases himself we are a credulous crowd,” seems to be varied from Ovid (Fasti, iv. 311):—
“Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.”
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of fame but towards vice we are a credulous crowd.
[63] The chief objections.
[64] That time might be better spent.
[65] Beg the question.