That fruitful boughs may prosper, yield their loads of figs.
Sagacity roots out all weeds from cultured space.
The orchard, thence, new vigour finds, and blooms apace.150
A wise physician will extract a tooth decayed,
To give relief from pain to his beloved maid.
How much increase grows out of decrease here below.
The martyr gains eternal life by death in show.
Man, fed by bread, cuts down the harvest corn when ripe;
“Partakes the blessing joyfully,”[421] with drum and pipe.
When brutes are slaughtered with due sense of wisdom’s law,