Did I believe this praise were meant to me,

Or thought, though thou hast worth enough to spare,

T' enrich another soul, that mine should share.

Thy Muse, seeming to lend, calls home her fame,

And her due wreath doth in renouncing claim.

Answer.] In l. 10 of the 'Answer' 1647 has 'must'. At the end of the poem in 1647 is the couplet

Δύσμορε θηλυμανῶν γλυκὺ μὴ λέγε κέντρον ἐρώτων·

Μοῦνος ΤΑΣ ΜΟΥΣΑΣ ὄλβιός ἐστι ΘΕΛΩΝ.


Pythagoras, his Moral Rules.