Nec vero tantum quia multa uolumina, quantum
Quod perpulchra simul optimaque exhibeat.
M.CCCC.LXX.
Wendelin of Speier these records of the art
Of Maro now to Venice doth impart.
Let some of Polycletus praise the skill,
Parrhasius, or what sculptor else you will;
Who loves the stainless gifts the Muses give
Will pray that Wendelin’s renown may live;
Not that his volumes make so long a row,