ds o're
With after steps, the heeles of them before,
They that goe formost are design'd
A mischiefe oft to those that come behind.

Me Parnassus & integer
Plebeiis Helicon caetibus eripit
Sublimem; unde vagantium
Errores animorum, & male desidis
Vulgi damna patent. juvat
Ex alto intrepidum colle jacentia
Despectare pericula, &
Cantum non propriis vivere casibus.

_Pernassus_, and chaste _Helicon_
Sublimes and takes mee from the vulgar throng:
From whence, the false mistakes I view
And wandring mindes of the too slothfull crew;
And from on hye I fearelesse see,
With sport, the dangers that below me lye;
Thus warily with joy I live,
And by, other mens mischances I can thrive.

_Ad Sigismundum Laetum._

Gloriae inanis despicientiam & silentium commendat.

Ode 11. l. 4.

To Sigismundus Laetus.

_Hee Commends the despising of vaine-glory, and silence._

Od. 11. Lib. 4.

Laete, quid cassis sequimur fugacem
Gloriam telis? fugit illa Mauri
More, vel Parthi, regeritque ab ipso
Vulnera tergo.
Hospes unius negat esse tecti
Garrulus vulgi favor: hic inani
Aure rumores legit, inde veris
Falsa remiscet.

Why fleeting glory follow wee,
_Laetus_, with weapons all in vaine?
When like a Moore, or Parthian, shee
Flyes at her backe with wounded Trayne.
The Talking-peoples love, denyes
Under one roofe a guest to fix:
With's empty care, one takes up lyes,
And them with truths, doth subt'ly mix,

Hic velut nidum positurus haesit,
Mox ubi vano vacuum tumultu
Pectus illusit, tacitis in altum
Subsilit alis,
Vera laus sciri fugit. ipse pulcher
Se sua Titan prohibet videri
Luce: qui totus potuit latere,
Major habetur.

Another sticks, and thinkes to build
His nest: but when he plainly sees
His empty breast with noise beguild,
Aloft with silent wings, hee flees.
True praise would not be knowne; the Sun
Forbids from being seen below
By his own light: and hee that can
Ecclipse himselfe, doth brighter show.

Qui premit sacram taciturnitate
Pectoris gazam; bene non silenti
Tutus in vulgo bene suspicaci
Regnat in aula.
Praeterit mutas bene cymba ripas;
Quae simul raucis strepuere saxis,
In latus caut