This is Mr. _Boyle_'s Quotation of _Teissier_, by which it appears how
far _Hotoman_ ought to be blamed by all _true Frenchmen, AVEC RAISON_.
But provided that _Hotoman_ proves irrefragably all that he says (as not
only Monsieur _Bayle_ himself, but every body else that writes of him
allows) I think it will be a hard matter to persuade a disinteress'd
Person, or any other but a _bon Francois_, (which, in good _English_, is
a _Lover of his Chains_) that here is any just Reason shewn why
_Hotoman_ shou'd be blam'd.

Monsieur _Teissier_, altho' very much prejudiced against him, was (as
one may see by the Tenor of the above Quotation, and his leaving it thus
uncommented on) in his Heart convinc'd of the Truth of it; but no _bon
Francois_ dares own so much. He was a little too careless when he wrote
against _Hotoman_, mistaking one of his Books for another; _viz._ his
Commentary _ad titulum institutionum de Actionibus_, for his little Book
_de gradibus cognationis_; both extremely esteemed by all learned Men,
especially the first: Of which Monsieur _Bayle_ gives this Testimony:
"_La beauté du Stile, & la connoissance des antiquités Romaines
eclatoient dans cet Ouvrage, & le firent fort estimer._"

_Thuanus_, that celebrated disinteress'd Historian, gives this Character
in general of his Writings. "He composed (says he) several Works very
profitable towards the explaining of the Civil Law, Antiquity, and all
Sorts of fine Literature; which have been collected and publish'd by
_James Lectius_, a famous Lawyer, after they had been review'd and
corrected by the Author. _Barthius_ says, that he excelled in the
Knowledge of the Civil Law, and of all genteel Learning [Footnote:
_Belles Literature_] _Ceux la mesmes qui ont ecrits contre luy_ (says
_Neveletus_) _tombent d'accord quil avoit beaucoup de lecture & une