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But it was a
windy knowledge that thus filled his sayles of glory, which grew at
last so to tempest his wittes, as he held Aristotle superior to
Moses and Christ, and yet but equall to himselfe. But this extreame
surquedry, forfeyted his wittes, so as at last they could not serue
him to know any letter in the booke, or to remember ought that he
had done.
In King Henry the thirds time, liued Michael of Cornwall, admirable
(as those dayes gaue) for his variety of Latine rimes, who maintayned
the reputation of his Countrey, against Henry de Abrincis, the Kings
Arch-Poet, but somewhat angerly, as it seemeth by these verses against
the said de Abrincis:
Est tibi gamba capri, crus Passeris, & latus Apri,
Os leporis, catuli nasus, dens & gena muli,
Frons vetulae, tauri caput, & color vndique Mauri
His argumentis, quibus est argutia mentis,
Quod non a Monstro differs, satis hic tibi monstro.
[1292] Walter of Exon, a Franciscane Frier of Carocus in Cornwall,
at the request of Baldwin of Exon (de-) formed the Historie of
Guy of Warwick.


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