hee performed the Funerall obsequies of his
most deare Wife._
+paraphrastikos+.

Ode 30. Lib. 4.

Si tibi pollicitum numen, si fata fuissent
AEternos fere conjugis annos;
Jure per assiduos (procerum fortissime) fletus
Ereptam quererere, _Janussi_.
Quem Pietas quem non moveat non tristibus unquam
Arx animi concussa procellis
Et pudor, & proni niveo de pectore sensus,
Et Regina modestia morum,
Aut bona sedulitas, aut non incauta futuri
Praesagae solertia montis?

What though the Gods have promis'd she shall bee
Enfranchis'd to Eternity?
Yet (valiant Sir) so great a losse still cryes
For a just tribute from your eyes;
View but her pious mind, that tow're of state
Not shaken by sad stownes of Fate,
Her humble innocent soule, her guiltlesse feare,
Her modesty chiefe Regent there;
The prudent thrift of her presaging mind
Her constant zeale, pure and refin'd;
_And who can then forbeare t'embalme her Hearse_
_With the daily precious dew of teares?_

Provida sed longam magnis virtutibus aevum
Non audent promittere fata:
Nec possunt, si quae maturavere, profanis
Astra diu committere terris.
Nunc adeo parces longis onerare querelis
Depositum repetentia magnum,
Ingentes animi gazas, & robur, & aureo
Incoctum bene pectus honesto.

Tis not in Fate to promise length of dayes,
To things of such esteeme and praise;
Nor can the starrs suffer so ripe a birth
To be long sullied with dull earth.
Load not the Heavens then with unjust complaints,
For taking back one of their Saints.
The courage of her richly temp'red breast
Made her for them a fitter guest:
Such jewells of her mind sparkle about her
The starres themselves can't shine without her.

Sic Tanaquil, sic quae cunctantem Claudia rexit
Virginea cervice Cybellen,
Quaeque maritali successit Thessala fato,
Et Latiis vaga Cloelia ripis;
Ante diem raptae vivunt post funera, vatum
Perpetuos in carmine fastos.
Illa quid[em] non, si surdos ad carmina Manes
Orphea testudine vincam,
Eductas adamante fores, & ahenea rumpat
Elysiii pomoeria muri,
Reddaturq; tibi. Stat nulli janua voto,
Nullis exorata Poetis.

Thus _Tanaquil_; thus _Claudia_'s virgin ban