alter what precisely accords not with the hide-bound humor which he
calls his judgment? What is it but a servitude like that imposed by
the Philistines?"




THE LEGEND

_Fit ex his consuetudo, inde natura_

"I love little pussy,
Her fur is so warm."




I--How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom


Now, at about the time that the Tyrant Pedagogos fell into disfavor
with his people, avers old Nicanor (as the curious may verify by
comparing Lib. X, Chap. 28 of his _Mulberry Grove_), passed through
Philistia a clerk whom some called Horvendile, travelling by
compulsion from he did not know where toward a goal which he could not
divine. So this Horvendile said, "I will make a book of this
journeying, for it seems to me a rather queer journeying."

They answered him: "Very well, but if you have had dinner or supper by
the way, do you make no mention of it in your book. For it is a law