Semotus a tumultuoso Mundi Theatro
Rabiosâ eius insaniâ intactus dormis,
150Famae securus et ab omni obtrectatione liber.
Qui ampliorem attineret felicitatem,
Vel usque ad Coelos ocyus volaret,
Oportet esse plusquam Mortalem,
Nec unquam prorsus dignari mori.
Poema in Obitum, &c.] Heading: 'Vide sis' = vide, si vis.
Emanuel, &c.] Pepys read his 'new Emanuel Thesaurus [Tesaufro] Patriarchae' on Jan. 23, 1660⁄1. It was a genealogy of Christ and a very popular book.
22 delineari] deliniri in the text. 'Fidelitati' in l. 95 should be the ablative. In 63 'teneribus manibus' was probably a printer's blunder, but the author must be credited with such erroneous forms as 'sentivit' and 'lugisset'.