amat comes ire Livor.

I hate the common road of praise,
Or what the gaping vulgar raise,
Which with a pleasant gale a while
Fame hurries, but doth soone beguile:
Now Envie's sting it feeles, ere long
Th'Artillery of some spightfull tongue:
Thus chac'd, with weak'ned wings it dyes;
Or torne, on the bare ground it lyes.
A private fame, a meane house, where
I live conceal'd from popular ayre,
Best fits my mind, and shelters me:
Vertue t'her owne praise deafe should be.
Our emulation, things a farre off command,
But Envy haunts things that are neere at hand.

_Ad Caesarem Pausilippium._

Adversa constanti animo ferenda esse.

_Ode 13. Lib. 4._

Si quae flent mala lugubres
Auferrent oculi, Sidoniisego
Mercarer bene lacrymas
Gemmis, aut teretum merce monilium,
At ceu rore seges viret,
Sic crescunt riguis tristia fletibus.
Urget lacryma lacrymam;
Fecundusq; sui se numerat Dolor.
Quem fortuna semel virum
Udo degenerem lumine viderit,
Illum saepe ferit; mala
Terrentur tacito fatae silentio.
Ne te, ne tua fleveris
Quae tu, care, vocas, _Pausilipi_, mala,
Quam pellunt lacrymae, fovent
Sortem: dura negant cedere mollibus.
Siccas si videat genas,
Durae cedet hebes sors patientiae.

To Caesar Pausilippius.

_That adversity is to bee endured with a constant mind._

Ode 13. l. 4.

If mournfull eyes could but prevent
The evils they so much lament
Sidonian Pearles, or Gems more rare,
Would be too cheap for ev'ry teare.
But moyst'ned woes grow fresh, and new,
As Come besprinkled with the dew.
Teare followes teare, and fruitfull griefe
Hath from it selfe, its owne reliefe.
The man whom Fortune doth espy
With drooping spirit, and moyst'ned eye,
Shee, often strikes; ill Fate, amaine
Runs Scarr'd no notice being ta'ne.
Bewayle not then thy selfe, deare friend,
Or evills that on thee attend;
What they expell, teares cherish oft;
Hard things deny to yeild to soft.
Mischance is conquered, when she spies
A valiant patience with dry eyes.

_Ad Crispum Laevinium._

Rogatus cur saepe per viam caneret, respondet.

_Ode 44. Lib 4._

To Crispus Laevinius.

_Being asked why hee sung so often as hee travailed,
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