Note 743 — Chapter XVII · (continued 2)

Such was the writer’s indignation that his words are scarcely worthy of a Humanist. The following comes from the “Responsio ad convitia Lutheri” (1523, “Opera,” Lovanii, 1566, p. 116´), not published under More’s own name: “Nihil habet in ore (Lutherus) praeter latrinas, merdas, stercora, quibus foedius et spurcius quam ullus unquam scurra scurratur.... Si pergat scurrilitate ludere nec aliud in ore gestare quam sentinas, cloacas, latrinas, merdas, stercora, faciant quod volent alii, nos ex tempore capiemus consilium, velimusne sic bacchantem ... cum suis merdis et stercoribus cacantem cacatumque relinquere.”