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One ought to learn, as the years flow on, to love such scenes as that, and not to need to have the blood and the brain stirred by romantic prospects, peaked hills, well-furnished galleries, magnificent buildings: mutare animum, that is the secret, to grow more hopeful, more alive to delicate beauties, more tender, less exacting.
And therefore, to give me leave without offence always to live and die in this mind, that he is not worthy to live at all that for fear or danger of death shunneth his country's service and his own honour, seeing death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue immortal. Wherefore, in this behalf, Mutare vel timere sperno. Learnedly written by Master Richard Willes, Gentleman.
"Oh, my brother! my brother!" moaned poor Adrian; "the glory of his house, the glory of Devon!" "Ah! what will the queen say?" asked Mrs. Hawkins through her tears. "Tell me," asked Adrian, "had he the jewel on when he died?" "The queen's jewel? He always wore that, and his own posy too, 'Mutare vel timere sperno. He wore it; and he lived it." "Ay," said Adrian, "the same to the last!"
'Nova constitutio futuris formam imponere debet, et non praeteritis. The maxim in Bracton was taken from the civil law, for we find in that system the same principle, expressed substantially in the same words, that the law- giver cannot alter his mind to the prejudice of a vested right. 'Nemo potest mutare concilium suum in alterius injuriam."
"Nec, quæ sulfureis ardet fornacibus, Ætne Ignea semper erit; neque enim fuit ignea semper. Nam, sive est animal tellus, et vivit, habetque Spiramenta locis flammam exhalantia multis; Spirandi mutare vias, quotiesque movetur, Has finire potest, illas aperire cavernas: Sive leves imis venti cohibentur in antris; Saxaque cum saxis...." Ibid., 340. Strabo, lib. vi. Tacitus, lib. vi. 16, 20.
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