Note 71 — ACTUS III., SCÆNA 1.

Alluding, I think, to Duns Scotus, who commented upon "The Master of the Sentences."—Pegge.

Duns Scotus was an English Franciscan Friar who, differing from Thomas Aquinas, occasioned a famous scholastic division, known by the titles of Thomists and Scotists. He died at Paris in 1308. Erasmus, who had a very low opinion of this writer, in his "Praise of Folie," 1549, sig. N 3, says: "Lykewise not longe agone I was present at the sermon of an other famous doctour being almost 80 yeres old, and thereto so doctour lyke, as if Duns were new arisen in him, who entending to disclose the mistery of the name of Jesu, with great subtiltie shewed, how evin in the verie letters was muche pithe included, and might be gathered thereof."