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Malescot, Etienne de · 1572

...and in retreat, they plot hidden things. To these, all lust and concupiscence is pleasing. But so that they may more easily circumvent any good man with a bland, painted, and masked face, and with dissimulation, they pretend one thing in their mouth and have another in their retreat. This has deservedly always been hateful not only to all well-born men and princes, such as Julius Caesar waging war in Gaul, but especially to you in all your dealings, according to the sentiment of Homer, which Polemon a Greek philosopher in Philostratus a Greek writer often has in his mouth:
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man
Who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Which verses can be expressed in Latin thus:
That man is certainly hateful to me, hateful even to Orcus the underworld,
Who brings forth one thing in words, but hides another in his mind.
Therefore, it will not seem strange to you if, by the warnings of friends and the most flourishing disciples of my Bourges Academy original: "Bituricensis Academia"...