Note 73 — Chapter II · INTRODUCTION OF CARDS INTO EUROPE.
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Bishop of Bamberg.
What do you say is the name of the emperor who wrote your
Corpus Juris
?
Olearius. Justinian.
Bishop. A clever prince!—I drink to his memory. It must be a grand book.
Olearius. It may indeed be styled the book of books: a collection of all laws, ready for the decision of every case; and whatever is now obsolete or doubtful is expounded by the comments with which the most learned men have enriched this most admirable work.
Bishop. A collection of all laws! The deuce!—Then the Ten Commandments are there?
Olearius. Implicitè, they are; explicitè, not.
Bishop. That is just what I mean;—there they are, plainly and simply, with out explication."—Götz von Berlichingen, a Play, by Goethe, act i.