Note 5 — ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.
Reading edition
His love of literature was evinced by the motto which, according to Leland, was frequently written by him in his books: 'Moun bien mondain.' (Hearne's MS. Diary, xxxvi. 199.) Hearne, in his esteem for the memory of this 'religious, good, and learned Prince,' quaintly says that he used, whenever he saw his handwriting in the Bodleian Library (where it occurs several times), 'to show a sort of particular respect' to it. (Preface to Langtoft, p. xx.) Was this 'sort of respect' a reverential kiss, such as that with which (as Warton in his Companion to the Guide tells us) he saluted the pavement of sheeps' trotters, supposed by him to be a Roman tesselated floor?