Exanimor, feror, distrahor, deripior,
Ubi sum, ibi non sum; ubi non sum, ibi est animus.
I am vext and toss'd, and rack'd on love's wheel:
Where not, I am; but where am, do not feel.
Frequenting shady bowers in discontent,
To the air his fruitless clamours he will vent.
He is then too confident and rapt beyond himself, as if he had heard the nightingale in the spring before the cuckoo, or as [5312]Calisto was at Malebaeas' presence, Quis unquam hac mortali vita, tam gloriosum corpus vidit? humanitatem transcendere videor., &c. who ever saw so glorious a sight, what man ever enjoyed such delight? More content cannot be given of the gods, wished, had or hoped of any mortal man. There is no happiness in the world comparable to his, no content, no joy to this, no life to love, he is in paradise.
[5313]Quis me uno vivit felicior? aut magis hac est
Optandum vita dicere quis poterit?
Who lives so happy as myself? what bliss