ON MAMURRA'S SQUANDERING.For yon Firmian domain not falsely Mentula hight isRichard, owning for self so many excellent things—Fish, fur, feather, all kinds, with prairie, corn-land, and ferals.All no good: for th' outgoing, income immensely exceeds.Therefore his grounds be rich own I, while he's but a pauper.Laud we thy land while thou lackest joyance thereof.

OF THE SAME.Mentula! masterest thou some thirty acres of grasslandFull told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.Why may he not surpass in his riches any a CrœsusWho in his one domain owns such abundance of good,Grasslands, arable fields, vast woods and forest and marishYonder to Boreal-bounds trenching on Ocean tide?Great are indeed all these, but thou by far be the greatest,Never a man, but a great Mentula of menacing might.

TO GELLIUS THE CRITIC.Seeking often in mind with spirit eager of studyHow I could send thee songs chaunted of Battiadés,