The devil is pleas'd when we remain therein;
The world is pleas'd with good wine,
And you're pleased when I pay for mine."
J. R.
Cork.
Liber Conformitatum, &c. (Vol. v., p. 202.).
—On the Liber Conformitatum, I confidently assert, from accurate inquiry, that no edition preceded that of 1510, nor is there any authority for the alleged one of Venice. A long account of this most disedifying volume will be found in DeBure's Bibliographie Instructive, No. 4540. I am in possession of the second edition in 1511, perfectly identical in the text. Its absurdity is equal to its obvious, though not intended, blasphemy; for it is written in genuine simplicity of design. I have likewise the Alcorand des Cordeliers, with the second book by Conrad Badius, the son of Jodocus Badius Ascencius, a native of Belgium, but one of the early Parisian printers, and author himself of various works. The title of my edition of the Alcoran, printed at Geneva, 1575, differs from that of 1586, but necessarily of the same import, and quite as prolix.
J. R.
Cork.