commonplacenotessample leonleonseondeon There art not a torch to finally guide us, no lampada poscis art reserved for our Tartessiacis inimica palatia sceptris, or our periculosique concubitus et venenati serpentis amplexus delectant, whensoever our lives hath become these copulations of poisonous serpents: nor amongst our personal Hells shall sol meridianus incalesceret: methinks thou loved, but thou lost, there art no fortis amictu olim te superis impositura plagis, no more strong mantle there, Laertiadae pontus gravis; imaginem fluctus: [or to quoth Eugippius], quod si molis instar parietem impolitis componat artifice tardante lapidibus- thou asketh with Papinius Statius as well, nam populus mortale genus; plebisque caducae quis fleat interitus?, art there not any man that mayst contravene his miserable fate, or upon I that canst redeem me, or at least to lift me up again, like whenever I 'twere above this plague, and this more savage inhabitation, whereof I await my Death, to reddere terris, for thou art like [Poliphemum (apolunta femen)], thou art loveless and finally, circumspectatrix cum oculis emissiciis, and a Pantomimi chorum, a chorus of pantomimes, for because love is not forever love is not now, or because life ends, thou shall see to it that it never begins, and nowe thou art amongst the admirers of other's lives, and the Soul shalt become drunk on cariosae fragmine cupae, for thine own life is never enough so long as it is not ever- lasting, thereof Ille altum Zephyris per inane vocatis, and thine sidera uobis posse Cytinaeis ducere carminibus is gone, for thou would feed the soul, so very little, of the images of another life, of a healthy one when thou art barely sick, of a longer one when thine life tis' long, and a richer one when thou art already a King, et cum se roseae trudunt de palmite gemmae, haerentes teneris cochleas venare flagellis, for thou hath ingrafted thine whole well being unto this future, ergo etiam stultis acuit ingenium fames, wherefor that outshineth thine whole life, as Death placeth e'ery industry under suspect, with a wont to derive indolence thereupon e'ery industry, as it where, to asketh thine Soul, afterwhich it hath turned awaye in offense to what it hath been presented with, with Maturinus Coderius: Siccine soles ientaculum aut merendam oblivisci?, and why hadst thou come so late to thine own feast?, when it is surely as though we hath a wish to breed a Soul so empty as that. We hath Gallus and his cure for Madness, Iam mihi per rupes videor lucosque sonantis ire; libet Partho torquere Cydonia cornu spicula; tamquam haec sit nostri medicina furoris, and yet I have my own: "ignava poetae! Nam paucos primo mandabat mane tabelli versiculos, nec erat quod vespere lamberet ursa." that is, write, and write every day, or try to, and by the means which to fetch before your breakfast, the writing tablet, you will do thus, though some of us, adversis memini vota tulisse Notis; saepe abitura tuo ponentem brachia collo, gavisum in fluctus aequora mota truces,1 canalize from our [sapientum templa serena], as Lucretius calleth every book, from our Temple in Philosophy, an opaca silentia Thybris labitur inque sinus magno venit ore marinos, 2 the Dead Tongue of his Name, like whenever Tiberinus spoke in Virgil's story, in the accent of the early Greeks, we speak thus, with our complacent scoffing, but no one else understands it, uberibus suadens siccare fluorem lactis et in niveas astrictum cogere glaebas, it is silet altum nullus in ore cibus; nullus in ore Deus, as Plempius saith in one of his epigrams, a food neither for animals, men, or Gods- but for only the inconcussa lacertis. What doth thou trully want? Lactanius asketh: Quid aurum? Quid argentum? This is but one reason to live as though Death where no thing at all, for it hath a way to inspire every sin, and to make what we already hath seem ever so small, to make a king more brutal then he needs to be, to accentuate the petty illnesses, and bring the worst out of a Man, or e'en to turneth the lovesick into philosophers. [Partition index] Tartessiacis inimica palatia sceptris-CASPAR BARLAEUS lampada poscis-Persius periculosique concubitus et venenati serpentis amplexus delectant-APulies, cupid and psyce fortis amictu olim te superis impositura plagis-LAURENTIUS CORVINUS circumspectatrix cum oculis emissiciis-Aulularia Ille altum Zephyris per inane vocatis-JACOPO SANNAZARO sol meridianus incalesceret-Longi Pastoralia sidera uobis posse Cytinaeis ducere carminibus-Propertius Quid aurum? Quid argentum?-Lactanius Pantomimi chorum-Petronius cariosae fragmine cupae -Georgarchontomachiae Ideo eum et Poliphemum diximus quasi apolunta femen-Fulgentius Mythographus Laertiadae pontus gravis;-Epigrammatum anthologia palatina: cum Planudeis et appendice nova et cum se roseae trudunt de palmite gemmae...-Pascolus, Senex Corycius 071121 what's it to you? who go blather from