‘’Tis writing, writing now is all the rage.’ Martin.
Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,
Fortuna saevo laeta negotio,
Quod faciunt nobis annorum tempora, circum
Cum redeunt felusque ferunt variosque lepores.
Cp. ‘Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.’
Octobres Maro consecravit Idus.
‘But if a chaste and blooming wife, beside,
His cheerful home with sweet young blossoms fills,