This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...8-9. An ater sit contrarius albo I do not know whether this was a proverbial subject for disputation. If not, it might have been suggested by Ovid's line about the raven which had been turned black, Metam. ii. 541 'Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo'. 9-10. a white Surplesse, or a black gowne See note on i. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...8-9. An ater sit contrarius albo I do not know whether this was a proverbial subject for disputation. If not, it might have been suggested by Ovid's line about the raven which had been turned black, Metam. ii. 541 'Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo'. 9-10. a white Surplesse, or a black gowne See note on i. 77. 11. As to the disputes about the surplice see Mr. Mullinger's Cambridge, ii. 195-206, and 280. 11-14 Again from C. Agrippa, De Incert. et Van. cap. 25, trans. 1569, fol. 36, ' there was an obstinate strife betweene the Augustine Freeres: and the vulgare Lat. regularibus Chanons before the Pope, cocerning the habite, or apparrel of S. Augustine, that is to saie, whether he did weare a blacke weede vpon a white Coate, or a white weede vpon a blacke Coate.' 14-16 A reminiscence of the De Incert. et Van. cap. 22, trans. 1569, fol. 33, 'and at no time there is any contention emonge them i.e. Geometricians but of pointes, of lines, of the vtter shewe of thinges (Lot. de superficiebus. P. 134, 9-10. Vitia sunt ad virtutem occasio Not found. 15. expositers, ) and... Fathers, tut Better ' expositors and... Fathers, ) but.. 17. Quest i. e. jury, body of persons appointed to hold an inquiry. Nashe means ' without reference to Church decretals or canons.' 29. Melius est... See St. Bernard, Epist. 102, Migne, Patr. Curs. 182 (Bern. 1), col. 237 'Melius est enim ut pereat unus quam unitas'. P. 135, 8. absolute i. e. excellent, perfect. 22-6 There seems to be a reminiscence of this in Dicker's Honest Whore, Pt. i, V. ii, Wks., ed. Pearson, ii. 79, 'the Courtier is mad at the Cittizen, the Cittizen is mad at the Countrie man, the Shoomaker is mad at the Cobler, the Cobler at the Carman.' P. 136, 7-10. Democritus... vanities See Aulus Gellius, x. 17, and Plu...
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