THE

LIFE

OF

ERASMUS:

WITH

HISTORICAL REMARKS

ON THE STATE

OF

LITERATURE

BETWEEN THE TENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.

Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, aut quis mihi jure succenseat,
si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad
alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur
temporis, quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum
pilæ, tantum mihi egomet ad hæc studia recolenda sumpsero.

Cicero pro Archia.

Le changement d'etude est toujours un delassement pour moi.
D'Aguesseau.

BY CHARLES BUTLER, Esq.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

M.DCCC.XXV.

363

3.-The Effects of the Invasion of the Barbarians

upon Literature

-

From the Birth of Erasmus till his first Journey to

Paris

1467-1496. Æt. 1-29.

Birth of Erasmus

Sent to School at Daventer

31

ib.

34