" "Ad Laudes et ad Vesperas ant.

William of Malmesbury says that the Norman Thomas, Archbishop of York, the opponent of Anselm wrote religious songs in imitation of those performed by jongleurs; "si quis in auditu ejus arte joculatoria aliquid vocale sonaret, statim illud in divinas laudes effigiabat."

Well, be it so then, they have wealth and honour, fortune and preferment, every man (there's no remedy) must scramble as he may, and shift as he can; yet Cardan comforted himself with this, "the star Fomahant would make him immortal," and that after his decease his books should be found in ladies' studies: Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori.