I have laboriously collected this cento out of various authors, and that _sine injuria_: I have wronged no authors, but given every man his own; which Hierom so much commends in Nepotian; he stole not whole verses, pages, tracts, as some do nowadays, concealing their authors' names; but still said this was Cyprian's, that Lactantius, that Hilarius, so said Minutius Felix, so Victorinus, thus far Arnobius: I cite and quote mine authors (which, howsoever some illiterate scribblers account pedantical, as a cloak of ignorance, and opposite to their affected fine style, I must and will use) _sumpsi, non surripui_; and what Varro, lib. 6 de re rust., speaks of bees, _minime maleficae, nullius opus vellicantes faciunt deterius_, I can say of myself. Whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part and yet mine: _apparet unde sumptum sit_ (which Seneca approves); _aliud tamen, quam unde sumptum sit, apparet_; which nature doth with the aliment of our bodies, incorporate, digest, assimilate, I do _concoquere quod hausi_, dispose of what I take: I make them pay tribute, to set out this my Macaronican: the method only is mine own. I must usurp that of _Wecker e Ter. nihil dictum quod non dictum prius: methodus sola artificem ostendit_: we can say nothing but what hath been said, the composition and method is ours only, and shows a scholar. Oribasius, Aëtius, Avicenna, have all out of Galen, but to their own method, _diverso stylo, non diversa fide_. Our poets steal from Homer; he spews, saith Aelian, they lick it up. Divines use Austin's words _verbatim_ still, and our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best, --donec quid grandius aetas Postera, sorsque ferat melior. R. BURTON. _The Anatomy of Melancholy._ PLAGIARIE He [King Charles I, in his _Eikon Basilike_] borrows David's Psalmes, as he charges the Assembly of Divines in his twentieth Discourse, _To have set forth old Catechisms and confessions of faith new drest_. Had he borrowed David's heart, it had been much the holier theft. For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good Authors is accounted Plagiarie. However, this was more tolerable than Pamela's prayer, stolen out of Sir Philip.--J. MILTON. _Eikonoklastes._ TRANSPLANTATION