"It was this Pope's [Paul IV.] Legate, _Cardinal Carafa_, that gave this blessing to the devout Parisians, _Quandoquidem populus decipi vult, decipiatur_. Inasmuch as this people _will_ be deceived, let them be deceived." This book of Prideaux's is full of mottoes, of which I shall give a few instances. Of Frederick Barbarosa "his saying was, _Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit imperare_:" of Justinian "His word was, _Summum jus, summa injuria_--The rigour of the law may prove injurious to conscience:" of Theodosius II. "His motto was, _Tempori parendum_--We must fit us (as far as it may be done with a good conscience) to the time wherein we live, with Christian prudence:" of Nerva "His motto sums {622} up his excellencies, _Mens bona regnum possidet_--My mind to me a kingdom is:" of Richard Coeur de Lion, "The motto of _Dieu et mon droit_ is attributed to him; ascribing the victory he had at Gisors against the French, not to himself, but to God and His might." EIRIONNACH. Cardinal Carafa seems to have been the author of the above memorable dictum. Dr. John Prideaux thus alludes to the circumstance: "Cardinalis (ut ferunt) quidam [Greek: meta polles phantasias] Lutetiam aliquando ingrediens, cum instant importunius turbae ut benedictionem impertiret: _Quandoquidem_ (inquit) _hic populus vult decipi, decipiatur in nomine Diaboli_."--_Lectiones Novem_, p. 54.: Oxoniae, 1625, 4to. I must also quote from Dr. Jackson: "Do all the learned of that religion in heart approve that commonly reported saying of Leo X., '_Quantum profuit nobis fabula Christi_,' and yet resolve (as Cardinal Carafa did, _Quoniam populus iste vult decipi, decipiatur_) to puzzle the people in their credulity?"--_Works_, vol. i. p. 585.: Lond. 1673, fol. The margin directs me to the following passage in Thuanus: "Inde Carafa Lutetiam regni metropolim tanquam Pontificis legatus solita pompa ingreditur, ubi cum signum crucis, ut fit, ederet, verborum, quae proferri mos est, loco, ferunt eum, ut erat securo de numine animo et summus religionis derisor, occursante passim populo et in genua ad ipsius conspectum procumbente, saepius secreta murmuratione haec verba ingeminasse: _Quandoquidem populus iste vult decipi, decipiatur_."--_Histor._, lib. xvii., ad ann. 1556, vol. i. p. 521.: Genevae, 1626, fol. ROBERT GIBBINGS. * * * * * LATIN--LATINER. (Vol. vii., p. 423.) Latin was likewise used for the language or song of birds: "E cantino gli angelli Ciascuno in suo _Latino_." _Dante_, canzone i. "This faire kinges doughter Canace, That on hire finger bare the queinte ring, Thurgh which she understood wel every thing That any foule may in his _leden_ sain, And coude answere him in his _leden_ again, Hath understonden what this faucon seyd." Chaucer, _The Squieres Tale_, 10746.