Praebere jussus (p. 5).
Serial iteration is sharpened by antithesis.
Ut trudit undas unda, fluctus fluctui
Cedit sequenti, pellitur dies die;
Sempee premuntur praeterite novis malis;
Dolor dolori, luctui est luctus comes (p. 2).
The capable verse rises to metrical skill in the choruses. In Baptistes (1576) the first chorus points with epigram the Sapphic familiar to the Middle Age.
Occulit falsus pudor impudentem,
Impium celat pietatis umbra,