Note 1041 — Chapter V · THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE. 1175–1183. (continued 2)
Reading edition
“Quia ut scriptum est, Stultorum infinitus est numerus.” Will. Newb., l. iii. c. 7 (Howlett, vol. i. p. 234). The quotation is from the Vulgate version of Ecclesiastes i. 15; the English A. V. conveys a wholly different idea.