re
They rise; but sudden ruines seize
On our most lofty things, and richest treasure.
Nothing long time hath happy been.
The restlesse Fates of peopled-Cities, passe:
In a few hour's destroy'd w'have seen,
In many yeares what never raised was.
He gave to Chance long time, that said
One day's enough, whole Kingdomes t'overthrow:
Each moment holds a people swayd
Under a fatall and exalted blow.
Being neere thy death, then, _Publius_, spare
To load the Gods, with thy blasphemous plaints;
That Funeralls so frequent are,
Or death so much thy neighbours house haunts.
The houre, that first to thee gave life,
That thou should'st likewise dye, gave first to thee.
He hath liv'd long, who well doth strive
Sure alwaies of eternall life to bee.

Ad Asterium. Ode 8. lib 2.

At nos inani pascit imagine
Fortuna rerum. Ludimur _Asteri_,
Umbris amicorum; & doloso
Verba simul placuere fuco,
Res esse stulti credimus. at simul
Sors infidelem corripuit rotam,
Gaudent recedenti Sodales
Non eadem dare verba Divae.
Plerumq; falsis nominibus placent
Humana. Rari pollicitis data
Aequamus: & minor loquaci
Relligio solet esse voto.

To Asterius. _Od 8. l. 2._

VV'Are mock'd with 'baytes that fortune flings
And fed with th'empty husks of things:
Shadowes, not friends we entertaine;
W'are pleas'd with the deceitfull traine
Of words, and thinke them deeds. But when
Th'unconstant wheele shall turne agen
To th' parting Goddesse, wee shall see
Those friends the selfe-same words deny.
Things Humane under false names please.
Our gifts match not our promises;
Religion, lesse to be doth use,
Then the large language of our vowes.

Ex sacro Salomonis Epithal.

Ode 19. l. 2.

Similis est dilectus meus capreae, hinnuloque cervorum.

Out of _Solomon's_ sacred Mariage Song.

_Ode 19. Lib. 2._

Vitas sollicitae me similis caprae,
Quam vel nimbisoni sibilus Africi,
Vel motum subitis murmur Etesiis
Vano corripit impetu.
Nam seu prima metum bruma trementibus
Incussit foliis, sive Diespiter
Elisit resonis tela Cerauniis,
Incerta trepidat fuga.
At qui non ego te quaerere desinam,
Clamatura retro, _Christe_,