Christ.

Qualis est Dilectus tuus? ex _Cant._ 5.

Ex Lib. Epig. 37.

Qualis erat, tuus ille? tuus pulcherrimus ille?
Dicebat nuper barbara turba mihi.
Arripio dextra pennam, laevaque tabellam,
Et noto, _Christe_, tuo quicquid in orbe noto.
Pingo rosas, aurum, gemmas, viridaria, silvas,
Arva, lacus, celeri sidera pingo manu;
Et tabulam monstrans, Noster pulcherrimus, inquam,
Qualis erat, vultis discere? talis erat.

Who is thy Beloved? _Out of Cant._ 5.

_Lib. Epig._ 37.

What is that Spouse of thine? that fairest Hee?
The barb'rous people said, of late, to mee.
A Pen I tooke, and in a Tablet drew
Whatsoe're, O Christ, in thy blest orbe I view.
Roses, and Gold I paint, Gems, Groves, Corne-land,
Green Gardens, Lakes, and Stars with nimble hand;
Would you needs learne, what might my fairest bee?
Looke o're this tablet, pray, O such was Hee.

_Epig. 40. Lib. Ep._

Veni de Libano sponsa.

Et fugis, & fugiens clamas, quid sponsa moraris?
Non fugis, ut fugias: ut capiare, fugis.

Epig. 40.

Thou run'st, & running cry'st, why dost thou stay
My Spouse? thou would'st be ta'ne, not get away.

Ex lib. Epi. 48.

---- Lilia manu praeferenti.

Haec, quae virgineis nituntur lilia culmis,
Unde verecundas explicuere comas?
Non generant similes Paestana rosaria flores,
Nec simili Pharius messe superbit ager:
Non haec purpureis mater Corcyra viretis,
Nec parit aequoreis pulsa Carystos aquis.
Cum nullas habeant natales lilia terras,
Qui neget e casta lilia nata manu?

Ep. 48.

_To ---- bearing Lillyes in her hand._

These Lillyes which on virgin stalks doe bend,
From whence do they their chaster leaves extend?
The _Paestan_ beds such flowres did ne're bring forth,
Nor _Pharian_ fields e're gloried in such worth:
_Alcinous_ purple banks, ne're teem'd with these,
Nor rich _Carystos_ watred by the Seas.
Since then these flow'res no native place do know,
Who can deny from her chast hand they grow.

Ex Lib. Ep. 51.

_Iohanni de Lugo_, dum post morbum ad intermissam de Poeenitentia
doctrinam rediret.

Fertur inornatis nuper Metanoea capillis
Flesse, repentina cum raperere febri:
Fertur & indomito fraenos laxasse dolori,
Et lacrymis madidos exhib