[235] This is surely an early allusion to the superior sensitiveness on some points of the "_Nonconformist Conscience_." The fact alluded to should inspire joy rather than call forth sneers, for when a conscience becomes sensitive on some points there are reasonable hopes of its becoming sensitive on others. [236] _Sartor Resartus_, chap. ix. [237] _Life of Crichton_, p. 182. [238] In addition to any aid Urquhart may have received from friends who were intimately acquainted with the French language, he was deeply indebted to Cotgrave's French Dictionary, published in 1611, and dedicated to "Sir William Cecil, Knight, Lord Burghley, and sonne and heir apparant unto the Earle of Exeter," _i.e._, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Burghley. [239] _Rabelais_, p. xxi. [240] _I.e._ the Carthusians: like their impudence! [241] Book i. chap. 52. [242] "_Nitimur in vetitum, semper cupimus negata_" (Ovid, Amor. iii. 4, 17). [243] _Avec leur palefroy guorrier_--rather, "with their prancing palfrey." Guorrier from Gr. γαυρος--haughty. [244] Cf. Heb. xi. 23, "a proper child." [245] _Celle laquelle l'auroit prins pour son devot_--rather, "her, who had chosen him as her devoted servant." [246] Book i. chap. 57. [247] Fr. _faire versure_ = Lat. _facere versuram_ (Cic. Att. v. 1, § 2), to borrow money to pay another debt (F. W. S.). [248] Caes. B. G. vi. 19. [249] "_Deum maxime Mercurium colunt_" (B. G. vi. 17) (Ibid.). [250] "_Galli se omnes ab Dite patre prognatos dicunt_" (B. G. vi. 18). Dis is called _père des escuz_, as identical with Plutus, the god of hidden wealth (_Ibid._). [251] _Exclusively_, _i.e._, "I will affirm it, but not go to the stake for it" (F. W. S.).