She was bewildered by the multitude of things they bade her learn.

What are their compasses and rules? From me that helm shall conduct learn.

In stead thereof scoffing Scurrilitie, And scornfull Follie with Contempt is crept, Rolling in rymes of shameles ribaudrie Without regard, or due decorum kept; Each idle wit at will presumes to make*, 215 And doth the learneds taske upon him take.

Tell not me, Sir, of impeccability and perfection; such talk is for those that are strangers in the world: I have seen several nations, and conversed with all ranks of people; I have known the great and the mean, the learned and the ignorant, the old and the young, the clerical and the lay; but I have never found a man without a fault; and I suppose shall die in the opinion, that to be human is to be frail.

The following inscription, in a churchyard in Germany, long puzzled alike the learned and the unlearned: O quid tua te be bis bia abit ra ra

There are men, among those commonly reckoned the learned and the wise, who spare no stratagems to remove a competitor at an auction, who will sink the price of a rarity at the expense of truth, and whom it is not safe to trust alone in a library or cabinet.

"I can tell you a fellow learns to appreciate home when he has been without one, so to speak, for over two years.