Pauca dedi—nomen. Tu sane pauca petisti,
Assiduus sed ego te rogo plura—preces.
In answer to a similar request at another time, he replied—
Accipe quod poscis—nomen. Scribatur ut ipsum
In cœlo, ad Dominum tu bone funde preces.
On being presented on New Year’s day with a pair of spectacles by his friend, Dr. Peter Trombetti, of Bologna, he wrote:—
Deficit heu acies oculorum! instante senecta;
Deficit;—at comis lumina tu duplicas.
Lumen utrumque mihi argento dum nocte coruscat
Haud mihi qui dederit decidet ex animo.