John Peckham Quote

As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two benefices, when he ought to be contented with one.


De Oculo Morali quoted in Georg Herzfeld (ed.) An Old English Martyrology (1900)


As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two...

As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two...

As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two...

As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two...