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,