Word: aquinca
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...itself. It was written evidently by thoughtful students in the university, each setting forth his ideas about another student, who usually symbolized a large class. The whole group was then collected by a third student, with comment of his own. The first part, for example was written by Aquinca against Batando. In the second, Batando expresses his views about Aquinca. Then Caviton, a satellite of Aquinca, retaliates with a further attack on Batando, and others in turn take up the cry. The editor intersperses his own views, ending with a suggestive summary. I quote only the words of Aquinca...
...Aquinca deplcteth Batando in this manner...
...Aquinca cometh from the foot hills, liveth not with us but runneth back and forth daily like a dog returning ever to a hidden bone. He hath no interest in us, and careth not what he may give but only what he may gain. He lacketh the gentler qualities of good breeding. His garments offendeth our eyes. He gaineth mental prowess only by long labour which we disdain. Wherefore is he here? His preparation was among persons of his own sort and now he cometh from them, intruding here amongst...
...That Aquinca, he is the child of fortune. He hath always found the satisfaction of every safe desire at the tips of his fingers and many a pleasure which reason and decency forbid. He is concerned solely with the acquisition of those honors among his fellows which he findeth easy of attainment. Why doth he so disdain us? All we have, we have acquired by ourselves. Is their fortune then to their credit? Neither applause nor favor do we ask, but to be treated as men. There is in us experience at the least. There is in them but appetites...
...author of this tract, do say: Since Batando and Aquinca hold each other in mutual contempt, there are those that cry aloud: "Let us not have this spirit of hostility--are we not brethren one to another? Let Aquinca open his heart to Batando and Batando to Aquinca and there will be an end of littleness; yea, such a joyous exchange of fellowship there will be that we will return to the state of our ancestors, when differences between one man and another were unknown...
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