_Non si dea adunque l'uomo contentare di fare le cose buone, ma dee studiare di farle anco leggiadre. E non è altro leggiadria, che una cotale quasi luce, che risplende dalla convenevolezza delle cose, che sono ben composte, e ben divisate l'una con l'altra, e tutte insieme; senza la quel misura eziandio il bene non è bello, e la bellezza non è piacevole._ M. GIO. DELLA CASA, GALATEO. Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness; These are the scum with which coarse wits abound; The few may spare them well. HERBERT. The wise,—weighs each thing as it ought, Mistakes no term, nor sentence wrests awry; The fond will read awhile, but cares for nought, Yet casts on each man's work a frowning eye. This neither treats of matters low nor high, But finds a meane, that each good meaning might In all true means take Charity aright. CHURCHYARD. While others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity. Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my truth; the moral of my wit Is—plain and true;—there's all the reach of it. SHAKESPEARE. _τούτων οὖν οὓνεκα παντων, ὅτι σοφρονικῶς, κοὐκ ἀνοήτως ἐσπήδησας ἐφλυάρει, αἴρεσθ᾽ αὐτῷ πολὺ τὸ ῥόθιον, παραπέμψατ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἓνδεκα κώπαις θόρυβον χρηστὸν ληναΐτην, ἳν᾽ ὁ ποιητὴς ἀπίῃ χαίρων, κατὰ νοῦν πράξας, φαιδρὸς λάμποντι μετώπῳ._ ARISTOPHANES. _Io vorrei, Monsignor, solo tant' arte Ch'io potessi, per longo e per traverso, Dipingervi il mio cor in queste carte._ LUDOVICO DOLCE. _Nous nous aimons un peu, c'est notre faible à tous; Le prix que nous valons qui le sçait mieux que nous? Et puis la mode en est, et la cour l'autorise Nous parlons de nous mêmes avec tout franchise._ CORNEILLE. _Mes paroles sont un peu de dure digestion pour la foiblesse des estomacs d' à present. Mais si on les remâche bien, on en tirera beaucoup de substance._ MADEMOISELLE BOURIGNON. _Supersunt etiam plurima quæ dici possint in hanc materiam, quibus pro vitando fastidio, supersedendum puto; ut si quis eadem conari velit, habiat etiamnum aliquid in quo exerceat industriam._ REN. RAPIN. I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. QUARLES. CONTENTS. CHAPTER CCI.—p. 1. QUESTION CONCERNING THE USE OF TONGUES.—THE ATHANASIAN CONFESSORS.—GIBBON'S RELATION OF THE SUPPOSED MIRACLE OF TONGUES.—THE FACTS SHOWN TO BE TRUE, THE MIRACLE IMAGINARY, AND THE HISTORIAN THE DUPE OF HIS OWN UNBELIEF. _Perseveremus, peractis quæ rem continebant, scrutari etiam ea quæ, si vis verum connexa sunt, non cohærentia; quæ quisquis diligenter inspicit, nec facit operæ prætium, nec tamen perdit operam._ SENECA. CHAPTER CCII.—p. 15. A LAW OF ALFRED'S AGAINST LYING TONGUES. OBSERVATIONS ON LAX ONES.