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"This jest of thine hath a name, in law, wot you what it is?" "I knew it not! Peradventure I have been unwise. I never dreamed it had a name ah, sweet heaven, I thought it was original." "Yes, it hath a name. In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi." "Ah, my God!" "And the penalty is death!" "God be merciful to me a sinner!"
Sure, there's nothing wrong wid ye, only the sup o' drink you tuck yesterday." "Go, woman," said Mat; "did you ever know me to make a wrong calculation I tell you I'm non compos mentis from head to heel.
In spite of our non-recollection of what passed before our birth, in spite of all difficulties from the dissolution of the body, 'Nihilominus, he says, 'sentimus experimurque nos æternos esse. Nam mens non minus res illas sentit quas intelligendo concipit, quam quas in memoriâ habet. Mentis enim oculi quibus res videt observatque sunt ipsæ demonstrationes.
Therefore the ancients finely described prayer, namely, that it is, Ascensus mentis ad Deum, a climbing up of the heart unto God, that is, lifteth itself up, crieth and sigheth to God: neither I myself, said Luther, nor any other that I know, have rightly understood the definition of this Ascensus.
Like that disappointing book in Patmos; or, like the comings on of melancholy, described by Burton, doth music make her first insinuating approaches: "Most pleasant it is to such as are melancholy given, to walk alone in some solitary grove, betwixt wood and water, by some brook side, and to meditate upon some delightsome and pleasant subject, which shall affect him most, amabilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error.
"This jest of thine hath a name, in law, wot you what it is?" "I knew it not! Peradventure I have been unwise. I never dreamed it had a name ah, sweet heaven, I thought it was original." "Yes, it hath a name. In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi." "Ah, my God!" "And the penalty is death!" "God be merciful to me a sinner!"
And, anyhow, his medical adviser tells me there is no reason to suppose that my old friend is not compos mentis." "Irechester says that?" "Mr. Saffron's medical attendant is Dr. Arkroyd." As he spoke the noise from above suddenly ceased. Since neither of the men in the parlor spoke, there ensued a minute of what seemed intense silence; it was such a change.
"And you had no chance at all, though innocent?" "Yes, I had one, and I chose not to take it. I might have proved myself non compos mentis; but that involved my making a fool of myself in public before a jury, and I have too much dignity for that, I can tell you.
It is always necessary, you see, to go back to the Gospels, and say to yourself that He came for the weak and the sick, the publicans and lepers; and, in fact, you must convince yourself that the Eucharist is a lookout post, a help, that it is given, as it is written in the ordinary of the Mass "ad tutamentum mentis et corporis et ad medelam percipiendam."
Little Miss Flite, in "Bleak House," haunting the Law Courts in expectation of a judgment on the Day of Judgment, is certainly not compos mentis. And one may concede to M. Taine that some element of sadness must always be present when we see a human creature imperfectly gifted with man's noblest attribute of reason.
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