om the beauteous starrs inquires,
And flowing measures swim;
May shee, I say, our Country's griefe
Cure, and the chast complaints releive
Of all our youth, and willing eares
Apply to th' praiers of all our Peeres.

Ad Aurelium Lycum.

_Ode 2. Lib. 1._

Ne plus aequo de adversa fortuna queratur.

To _Aurelius Lycas_.

Ode 2. Li. 1.

_That hee would not complaine too much of adverse fortune._

Indignas, Lyce, naenias,
Et maestum gemitu pectus, & hispidis
Frontem nubibus expedi,
Cum Sol non solito lumine riserit,
Et fortuna volubilis
Fati difficilem jecerit aleam.
Quod vexant hodie Noti,
Cras lambent hilares aequor AEtesiae.
Moestum sol hodie caput,
Cras laetum roseo promet ab aequore.
Alterno redeunt choro
Risus & gemitus, & madidis prope
Sicci cum Lacrymis joci.
Nascuntur mediis gaudia luctibus,
Sic fatis placitum. suis
Tempestiva fluunt fata periculis.

Unmanly howlings, _Lycuas_, leave,
Thy sad breast doe not vex, nor grieve;
Thy rugged brow from cloudes set free,
Although with usuall beames 'on thee
The Sun not shines; or fortune late
Hath throwne the hardest chance of Fate.
With th' waves, that South windes tosse to day,
The cheerfull Easterne gales will play;
The Sun that now hangs downe his head,
With joy from blushing _Thetis_ bed
I'th' morne will rise. Laughter and woe
Keepe time, and in their courses goe.
Cleare merriment succeeds wet eyes,
And joyes in mid'st of sorrows rise.
Thus pleaseth it the Fates, that flow
With various hazards here below.

Fessos duxit heri boves,
Dat magnis hodie jura Quiritibus:
Et quae bobus ademerat,
Imponit Gabiis, & Curibus juga.
Idem Phosphorus aspicit
Magnum quem tenuem viderat Hesperus.
Quod si seria ludicris
Fortuna placeat texere; Rusticus
Hesternam repetet casam,
Ridentis populi non humilis jocus:
Et queis rexerat omnia,
Findet laurigeris ligna securibus.
Quod si defuerit salix
Fasces pauperibus subjiciet focis.

Hee who his Oxen tyr'd, did drive,
Doth lawes to day, to th' City give:
And the same yokes he tooke from those,
Upon the Citizens impose.
The day-starre great, that man doth see,
Whom th'Evening saw in low degree.