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I repeat to you once more, you will do all that I have just said. LAUR. Sextus, mayhap, would pray the Gods to alter fate, to give him a better heart. ANT. He would receive the answer: Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando. He cannot cause divine foreknowledge to lie. But what then will Sextus say? Will he not break forth into complaints against the Gods? Will he not say? What?
How aptly does Horace's description of the young man apply to the people! Imberbis juvenis, tandem custode remoto Gaudet equis, canibusque et aprici gramine campi; Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus æris, Sublimis, cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix.
It may be so, but I can not think the example is likely to be dangerously contagious. Whatever happens, there will always remain a sufficiency of matronly Dicæarchs, over whose judgment-seats the legend is very plainly inscribed, Nescia flecti.
Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper. HOR. Art. Poet. 163. The youth Yielding like wax, th' impressive folly bears Rough to reproof, and slow to future cares.
'Preserve us, Lord, by thy deare word, From Turk and Pope, defend us Lord, Which both would thrust out of his throne Our Lord Jesus Christ, thy deare son. 'Proinde quum dominus Matth. 6 docet discipulos suos ne in orando multiloqui sint, nihil aliud docet quam ne credant deum inani verborum strepitu flecti rem eandem subinde flagitantium.
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