Part 34 (1/2)

17. [INCERTI.]

As Egypt's drought by Nilus is redress'd, So thy wise tongue doth comfort the oppress'd.

18. [INCERTI.]

[Like] to speedy posts, bear hence the lamp of life.

19. [DIONYSIUS LYRINENSIS.]

All worldly things, even while they grow, decay; As smoke doth, by ascending, waste away.

20. [INCERTI.]

To live a stranger unto life.

From a _Discourse of Life and Death_: translated from Nierembergius (1654).

1. [INCERTI.]

Whose hissings fright all Nature's monstrous ills; His eye darts death, more swift than poison kills.

All monsters by instinct to him give place, They fly for life, for death lives in his face; And he alone by Nature's hid commands Reigns paramount, and prince of all the sands.

2. [INCERTI.]

The plenteous evils of frail life fill the old: Their wasted limbs the loose skin in dry folds Doth hang about: their joints are numb'd, and through Their veins, not blood, but rheums and waters flow.

Their trembling bodies with a staff they stay, Nor do they breathe, but sadly sigh all day.

Thoughts tire their hearts, to them their very mind Is a disease; their eyes no sleep can find.

3. [MIMNERMUS.]

Against the virtuous man we all make head, And hate him while he lives, but praise him dead.

4. [INCERTI.]