Cunarum fueras motor, Charideme, mearum;
Et pueri custos, assiduusque comes.
Jam mihi nigrescunt tonsa sudaria barbam,——
Sed tibi non crevi: te noster villicus horret:
Te dispensator, te domus ipsa pavet.——
Corripis, observas, quereris, suspiria ducis;
Et vix a ferulis abstinet ira manum.
Mart. Lib. xi. Ep. xxxix.
You rock'd my cradle, were my guide,
In youth still tending at my side: