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{52} Or Comic?
{53} In pistrinum. In the pounding-mill (usually worked by horses
or asses).
{54} Or Tragic?
{55} The old song of Percy and Douglas, Chevy Chase in its first
form.
{56} Or the Heroic?
{57} Epistles I. ii. 4. Better than Chrysippus and Crantor. They
were both philosophers, Chrysippus a subtle stoic, Crantor the first
commentator upon Plato.
{58} Summary of the argument thus far.
{59} Objections stated and met.
{60} Cornelius Agrippa's book, "De Incertitudine et Vanitate
Scientiarum et Artium," was first published in 1532; Erasmus's
"Moriae Encomium" was written in a week, in 1510, and went in a few
months through seven editions.
{61} The objection to rhyme and metre.
{62} The first of these sentences is from Horace (Epistle I. xviii.
69): "Fly from the inquisitive man, for he is a babbler." The
second, "While each pleases himself we are a credulous crowd," seems
to be varied from Ovid (Fasti, iv. 311):-
"Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus."
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of fame but
towards vice we are a credulous crowd.
{63} The chief objections.
{64} That time might be better spent.
{65} Beg the question.
{66} That poetry is the mother of lies.
{67} That poetry is the nurse of abuse, infecting us with wanton
and pestilent desires.
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