Spenser, The Ruines of Rome.
[715] Giano Vitale, to give him his Italian name, was a theologian and poet of Palermo. His earliest work was published in 1512, and he died about 1560. Brunet, and Zedler's Universal Lexicon.
[716]
'Albula Romani restat nunc nominis index,
Qui quoque nunc rapidis fertur in aequor aquis.
Disce hinc quid possit Fortuna. Immota labascunt,
Et quae perpetuo sunt agitata manent.'
Jani Vitalis Panormitani De Roma. See Delicia C.C. Italorum Poetarum, edit. 1608, p. 1433, It is curious that in all the editions of Boswell that I have seen, the error labescunt remains unnoticed.
[717] See post, June 2, 1781.
[718] Dr. Shipley was chaplain to the Duke of Cumberland. CROKER. The battle was fought on July 2, N.S. 1747.
[719]
'Inconstant as the wind I various rove;
At Tibur, Rome—at Rome, I Tibur love.'
FRANCIS. Horace, Epistles, i. 8. 12. In the first two editions Mr.
Cambridge's speech ended here.