And when with haf The ignorant for cu That had the orator Did fill his mouth v When he harangued He would have us'd In mathematics he Than Tycho Brahe For he, by geometri Could take the fize Refolve by fines and If bread or butter v And wifely tell wha The clock does ftrik Befide, he was a fhr And had read every Whate'er the crabbe He understood b' im Ver. 115.] This in the two firft editic 1674. Demofthenes in his fpeech. Ver. 120.] An en William Lilly, the i Ver. 129] This two first editions of A fecond Thomas, or, at once Profound Ver. 153, 154. Dunce.] Thus they stood in the two first editions of 1664, left out in those of 1674, 1684, 1689, 1900, and not reftored till 1704. Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican Friar, was born in 1224, studied at Cologne and at Paris. He new-modelled the fchool-divinity, and was therefore called the Angelic Doctor, and Eagle of divines. The most illustrious perfons of his time were ambitious of his friendship, and put a high value on his merits, fo that they offered him bishopricks, which he refused with as much ardour as others feek after them. He died in the fiftieth year of his age, and was canonized by Pope John XXII. We have his works in 18 volumes, feveral times printed. Johannes Dunfcotus was a very learned man, who lived about the end of the thirteenth, and beginning of the fourteenth century. The English and Scots ftrive which of them fhall have the honour of his birth. The English fay he was born in Northumberland; the Scots allege he was born at Dunfe in the Merfe, the neighbouring county to Northumberland, and hence was called Dunfcotus: Moreri, Buchanan, and other Scotch hiftorians, are of this opinion, and, for proof, cite his epitaph; Scotia me genuit, Anglia fufcepit, Gallia edocuit, Germania tenet. He died at Cologne, Nov. 8, 1308. In the Supplement to Dr. Cave's Hiftoria Literaria, he is faid to be extraordinary learned in phyfics, metaphyfics, mathematics, and aftronomy; that his fame was fo great when at Oxford, that 30,000 fcholars came thither to hear Profound in all the Nominal 155 And Real ways beyond them all: For he a rope of fand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist, And weave fine cobwebs, fit for fcull He could raise fcruples dark and nice, 160 165 The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd; Only hear his lectures; that when at Paris, his arguments and authority carried it for the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin, fo that they appointed a festival on that account, and would admit no fcholars to degrees but fuch as were of this mind. He was a great oppofer of Thomas Aquinas's doctrine: and, for being a very acute logician, was called Doctor Subtilis, which was the reafon alfo that an old punster always called him the Lathy Doctor. Ver. 155, 156.] Gulielmus Occham was father of the Nominals, and Johannes Dunfcotus of the Reals. These two lines not in the two first editions of 1664, but added in 1674. Ver. 157, 158.] Altered thus in edit. 1674, and continued till 1704. And with as delicate a hand, Could twift as tough a rope of fand, Only to fhew with how small pain 170 And, as he was difpos'd, could prove it 175 Below the moon, or else above it; What Adam dreamt of, when his bride Came from her clofet in his fide; In proper terms, fuch as men fmatter When they throw out and mifs the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; 180 185 190 'Twas Ver. 181.] Several of the Ancients have fuppofed that Adam and Eve had no navels; and, among the Moderns, the late learned Bishop Cumberland was of this opinion. Ver. 189] Mr. Butler is very exact in delineating his hero's religion; it was necessary that he should be fo, that the reader might judge whether he was a proper person to set up for a Reformer, and whether the 3 religion |