[Footnote 3: The first epistle (sine titulo) of Petrarch
exposes the danger of the bark, and the incapacity of the
pilot. Haec inter, vino madidus, aeve gravis, ac soporifero
rore perfusus, jamjam nutitat, dormitat, jam somno praeceps,
atque (utinam solus) ruit . . . . . Heu quanto felicius
patrio terram sulcasset aratro, quam scalmum piscatorium
ascendisset! This satire engages his biographer to weigh the
virtues and vices of Benedict XII. which have been
exaggerated by Guelphs and Ghibe lines, by Papists and
Protestants, (see Memoires sur la Vie de Petrarque, tom. i.
p. 259, ii. not. xv. p. 13 - 16.) He gave occasion to the
saying, Bibamus papaliter.]