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ed his performance by fome ludicrous anecdotes, he 

 concludes by telling the noviciate, that, upon the ex- 

 poftulations of Eubulus, he had renounced holy water, 

 the girdle, the cowl, and the fliaven crown, as ridicu- 

 lous marks of diltinflion, invented for the moll fordid 

 and infamous purpofes. The whole work I3 worfiiy 

 of Buchanan, the advocate and avenger of infuited 

 truth ; and if confidered merely as an animated and 

 faithful picture, muft be highly curious and inllructivr. 

 As a fpecimen of the fpirit of this poem^ it may be 

 proper to extract a few lines, fubjoining, as ufual, .1 

 proie tranflation. After a long detail of the various 

 circumftances which multiplied moaaftic vermin, he 

 proceeds thus : 



" Adjice prjEterea quos praeceps alea nudaf, 



Qiios Venus enervat, quos & potatio pemox 



tjecit patriis laribus, quos urget cgellas, 



Et quibus haudquaquam res I'unt in ar.iore fecundi, 



Faflof^quc innpes excluCt limen amicje, 



Q^os fcelas intaiiiat, tutor quos urget avaras, 



Hue, vclut ad tiituni cun^lis ell curfus afyluiu. 



Hoc proccrum e numero crcftit genercfa propags 



Funigeri gregis : hi patres quibu-; ille fuperbit 



Or Jo facer, leyes ha;c orbis mojcratur habenr.?, 



Quos nictus, ira, furor, mens tarda, ignavia, crimen, 



Aiubitio, res adverfs, faflidia vitas, 



Durus amor, dunis pater, implacata noverca, 



tt mendax virtutis amor, colkgit in uiiuni. 



" NamqueveUit quondam cum res adverfa premebat>» 

 Ad laqucum, ad pr.eceps, ad toxica, fliimina, poiUtfj 

 Atque 'J urts gladlos, caliijaiitcfque feiii^dras, 

 Cuifui erat, duram cupicati evadere forteni : 

 Sic modo cum fceiehs pudor, aut formido Icvcri 

 Judicis, aut gravior cunAis infamia pariii s 

 L'igct, ad hunc fcopulum Francifci in fyrmate fiint 

 Cingimur, & tanquana pariter cum vertics radi 

 Mills ctiam fcelerata queat : de facrilegis ct 

 L)e parricidis de furi'.jus, atque tina:dis, 

 J<Jo4 facL.t tali fubitos rafura coloiios.'' 



'* Add be fides thofc whom dice havs hurled into 

 " ruin, whom venerjr has enfeebled, or whom mid- 

 " nigh: car<.'i;r.i!ii Ijavc driven from the inheritance of 



