[Footnote 2: It appeared in the No. for May 15, 1849.--ED.]
If MR. TEMPLE will turn to p. 141. of Mathias Prideaux's _Easy and Compendious Introduction for reading all Sorts of Histories_, 6th edit., Oxford, 1682, small 4to., he will find his Query thus answered:
"It was this Pope's [Paul IV.] Legate, _Cardinal Carafa_, that gave this blessing to the devout Parisians, _Quandoquidem populus decipi vult, decipiatur_. Inasmuch as this people _will_ be deceived, let them be deceived."
This book of Prideaux's is full of mottoes, of which I shall give a few instances. Of Frederick Barbarosa "his saying was, _Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit imperare_:" of Justinian "His word was, _Summum jus, summa injuria_--The rigour of the law may prove injurious to conscience:" of Theodosius II. "His motto was, _Tempori parendum_--We must fit us (as far as it may be done with a good conscience) to the time wherein we live, with Christian prudence:" of Nerva "His motto sums { 622} up his excellencies, _Mens bona regnum possidet_--My mind to me a kingdom is:" of Richard Coeur de Lion, "The motto of _Dieu et mon droit_ is attributed to him; ascribing the victory he had at Gisors against the French, not to himself, but to God and His might."
Cardinal Carafa seems to have been the author of the above memorable dictum. Dr. John Prideaux thus alludes to the circumstance:
"Cardinalis (ut ferunt) quidam [Greek: meta pollês phantasias] Lutetiam aliquando ingrediens, cum instant importunius turbæ ut benedictionem impertiret: _Quandoquidem_ (inquit) _hic populus vult decipi, decipiatur in nomine Diaboli_."--_Lectiones Novem_, p. 54.: Oxoniæ, 1625, 4to.
"Do all the learned of that religion in heart approve that commonly reported saying of Leo X., '_Quantum profuit nobis fabula Christi_,' and yet resolve (as Cardinal Carafa did, _Quoniam populus iste vult decipi, decipiatur_) to puzzle the people in their credulity?"--_Works_, vol. i. p. 585.: Lond. 1673, fol.
The margin directs me to the following passage in Thuanus:
"Inde Carafa Lutetiam regni metropolim tanquam Pontificis legatus solita pompa ingreditur, ubi cum signum crucis, ut fit, ederet, verborum, quæ proferri mos est, loco, ferunt eum, ut erat securo de numine animo et summus religionis derisor, occursante passim populo et in genua ad ipsius conspectum procumbente, sæpius secreta murmuratione hæc verba ingeminasse: _Quandoquidem populus iste vult decipi, decipiatur_."--_Histor._, lib. xvii., ad ann. 1556, vol. i. p. 521.: Genevæ, 1626, fol.