Priscis, ingenium facit, laborque
Te parem; hos superes, ut et futuros,
15Ex nostrâ vitiositate sumas,
Quâ priscos superamus, et futuros.
Amicissimo &c. in sheets added 1650: prefixed originally to Quarto edition of Jonson's Volpone. 1607, later to Folio edition of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson. 1616., when In Vulponem was added: in both signed I.D.
11 Nascanturque 1607: Nascunturque 1616, 1650-69
To Mr George Herbert, with one of my
Seal〈s〉, of the Anchor and Christ.
Q VI prius assuetus Serpentum fasce Tabellas