Note 400 — Chapter V · RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE
George Herbert Ely translation
Le nom de foy et de bonté A tant mon esprit mesconté, Que je croy qu’il est en nature Moins de bons hommes qu’en peinture. (Melin de Saint-Gelais, in allusion to the order of St. Francis de Paul, known as bonhommes.)
[“Goodness” and “faith” and all such cant With me find sympathy but scant; Nature doth fewer good men breed Than live in pictures: that’s my creed.]