Note 707 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 7)

This extreme leniency caused an indignation of which an echo is found in Walsingham: "Oxoniense studium generale," he exclaims, "quam gravi lapsu a sapientiæ et scientiæ culmine decidisti!... Pudet recordationis tantæ impudentiæ, et ideo supersedeo in husjusmodi materia immorari, ne materna videar ubera decerpere dentibus, quæ dare lac, potum scientiæ, consuevere." "Historia Anglicana," Rolls, vol. i. p. 345, year 1378.