Stephani de Malescot Iuriscos. ac Belarborensis Theophilologi, de Nuptiis Liber Paradoxicus, nova & recenti methodo compositus

In the poets, there is a place for Homer alone, or Archilochus, or Sophocles, or Pindar, or in our own times, Turnebus, Auratus, and infinite others. But there is also Michel de l'Hôpital, Chancellor of France, to whom by divine nod, as if to a sacred anchor and common refuge of the Muses, all scholars and those who have deserved well of letters flee. Nor did the greatness of Plato deter Aristotle from writing on philosophy. Nor did Aristotle himself restrict the studies of others with his own admirable science. What must be judged regarding the Jurisconsults, who, consecrated to the Muses by infinite little books of writers, cling most closely to the footsteps of Minerva and dwell with Apollo? For (to omit the diverse examples of the ancients, and recount the diverse kinds of this age), the Cyclopean barbarism of Bartolus, Baldus, Jason, Paulus de Castro, Panormitanus, and others, did not stop Zasius, even while imbued with their monuments, from the explanation of law.