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"'Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum negata temptat iter via, Coetusque vulgares et udam Spernit humum fugiente penna' you have the Latin, sir?" "Not a word." He subsided upon the pile of rugs and spread out his hands in protest. "I tak' ye to witness, Mr. Byfield!"
"Did you happen by any chance to cast your eye over the paper I had my hand on?" "I did not," said Gaydon, in a great hurry. "It was a private letter, no doubt." "It was poetry. There's no need for you to hurry, my friend. It was more than mere poetry, it was in Latin. I read the first line on the page, and it ran, 'Te, dum spernit, arat novus accola; max ubi cultam "
Only in that labelled "No. 1" was there a scrap of the old scholar's handwriting, and it began "Dulce cum sodalibus Sapit vinum bonum: Osculari virgines Dulcius est donum: Donum est dulcissimum Musica tironum Qui tararaboomdeat, Spernit regis thronum!"
I have on an ancient, piece of iron the representation of a robber thus accoutred, endeavouring to make his way into a house, and opposed by a mastiff, to whom he in vain offers food. The motto is spernit dona fides. "What religion was the man of?" said Seyton; "he used words, which make me fear I have sent Satan a subject before his time."
Thus becometh the action or process by their care and industry to be of a complete and goodly bulk, well shaped, framed, formed, and fashioned according to the canonical gloss. Accipe, sume, cape, sunt verba placentia Papae. Which speech hath been more clearly explained by Albert de Ros, in verbo Roma. Roma manus rodit, quas rodere non valet, odit. Dantes custodit, non dantes spernit, et odit.
If we would resolve on any certain course by reason, we should pitch upon the best, but nobody has thought on't: "Quod petit, spernit; repetit, quod nuper omisit; AEstuat, et vitae disconvenit ordine toto." He fluctuates, and is inconsistent in the whole order of life." Horace, Ep., i.
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