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"England's wealthiest son" performs his travels, of course, in a style of great external splendour. Conspictuus longé cunctisque notabilis intrat Courts and palaces, as well as convents and churches, and galleries of all sorts, fly open at his approach: he is caressed in every capital he is fêté in every château.
Macer in Dig., 48, 5, 25 , ibid., Ulpian, 48, 5, 30 . Paulus, ii, xxvi. Juvenal, x. 317; quosdam moechos et mugilis intrat. Cf. Catullus, 15, 19. See, e.g., Capitolinus, Anton. Pius, 3. Spartianus, Sept. Severus, 18, Pliny, Panegyricus, 83: multis illustribus dedecori fuit aut inconsultius uxor assumpta aut retenta patientius, etc. Pliny, Letters, vi, 31. Paulus, ii, xxvi, 15.
For, as Jeremiah saith plainly, by such windows cometh in death: Mors intrat per fenestras.249 And this sufficeth, as little as it is, for answer to the first, where thou askest of me, what is my conceit of thee, and of these stirrings that thou speakest of to me in thy letter.
'Flocci, nihili' A feather brain, a nonentity. 'Classis primæ exultimis' Always the first in his class, counting from the bottom. And how about his morals? He is a wine-bibber. 'Ubi vinum intrat, ibi ratio exit' When the wine's in, the wit's out. He is a dancer and a serenader. He goes about with musicians and other lewd fellows.
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