[317:1] La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).—Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.—Plato: Phædrus.

[317:2] What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. x.

[317:3] See Dryden, page [269].

[318:1] Why may not a goose say thus? . . . there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me; I am the darling of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me?—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond.

[318:2] See Cowley, page [260].

[319:1] See Fletcher, page [183].

[319:2] See Cowley, page [262].

[319:3]

May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,