The flatterers of Dionysius were so grosse, that they would licke up the spittle of Dionysius, professing that it was sweeter than nectar; we must not so doate upon them [i.e., the scholastic doctors], as to lick up their excrements, but onlely follow them in so farre as they follow Christ.
—John Weemes (c.1579–1636), “Advertisement,”
in The Portraiture of the Image of God in Man (1632), a3r.
