1641,John Milton,Of Reformation in England and the Causes that Hitherto Have Hindered It, Volume I, inCharles Symmons (ed.),The Prose Works of John Milton, London: J. Johnson (etc.), 1806, Volume I, pp. 21-22 (citing the 74th epistle ofCyprian),[1]
Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail; for custom without truth is butagedness of errour.
I cannot tell the half of the strange pleasures and thoughts that come about me at the sight of that old tower; for, in some sort, it is the epitome of all that makes the Continent of Europe interesting, as opposed to new countries; and, above all, it completely expresses thatagedness in the midst of active life which binds the old and the new into harmony.
