Took a journey to Cambridge, and challenged any to dispute with them there, in the public schools, on the two following questions:--"_An jus Civile sit Medicina præstantius?_" In English as much as to say, _Which does most execution, Civil Law or Medicine?_--a nice point, truly. But the other formed the subject of serious argumentation, and ran thus:--"_An mulier condemnata, bis ruptis loqueis, sit tertio suspendenda?_" Ridley, the Bishop and martyr, then a young man, student or Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, is said to have been one of the opponents on this interesting occasion, and administered the _flagellæ linguæ_ with such happy effect to one of these pert pretenders to logic lore, that the other durst not set his wit upon him. The Oxford sophistry had so much CORRUPTED THE LATIN TONGUE There, says Wood, that the purity thereof being lost among the scholars, "their speaking became barbarous, and derived so constantly to their successors, that barbarous speaking of Latin was commonly styled by many 'Oxoniensis loquenti mos.' The Latin of the schools, in the present day, is none of the purest at either University. A certain Cambridge Divine, a Professor, who was a senior wrangler, and is justly celebrated for his learning and great ability, one day presiding at an act in Arts, upon a dog straying into the school, and putting in for a share of the logic with a howl at the audience, the Moderator exclaimed, "_Verte canem ex_." There have, however, been fine displays of pure Latinity in the schools of both; and it appears THE OXONIANS SURPASSED ARISTOTLE