When a man hath been labouring the hardest labour in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his mind through the whole cyclopædia, hath read the choicest authors, ancient and modern, cannot be content with this, but that he must be made a divorce-court man, to be an usher of the court of justice, and to sit in the seat of judgment, to determine upon the matter of divorce, and to be a judge between husband and wife.
— John Milton
Early Modern
Paradise Lost
