Non homo, sed vero mentula magna minax.

CXV.

Of the Same.

Mentula! masterest thou some thirty acres of grass-land

Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.

Why may he not surpass in his riches any a Crœsus

Who in his one domain owns such abundance of good,

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Grass-lands, arable fields, vast woods and forest and marish