Footnotes
[793:2] These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the "Biographia Britannica," second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.
FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU. 1604-1655.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;[793:3]
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Retribution. (Sinngedichte.)
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
Sin. (Sinngedichte.)