high Genius through th'ayre doth ride;
Now o're the scatt'red Islands, then
O're Seas, with dry feet passing back again;
Nothing that's mortall of mee, now
I beare, and nought to my dull bulke I owe.

_Tursci_, saepe tamen mones
Olim ne veteri clarior Icaro
Veris fabula casibus
Mutem Parrhasii nomina Balthiri.
Frustra; nam memor Icari,
Addo stultitiae consilium brevi:
Nam, seu dormio, me torus;
Seu scribo, stabili sella tenet situ.

Yet _Turscius_ thou hast often told,
And warn'd mee, lest then _Icarus_ of old
By a true fall indeed, I make
A lowder tale, and change the name o'th'Lake.
In vaine: Remembring Him, I had
A care, and counsell, to my folly, add:
For when I sleep, in bed I lye,
And if I write, my secure chaire holds mee.

Ad Quintum Tiberinum.

Ode 34. Lib. 4.

Divitem numquam, _Tiberine_, dices,
Cuius Eois potiora glebis
Rura, fortunae sine faece pulcher
Rivus inaurat;
Quem per insigneis geniale ceras
Stemma claravit; vaga quem per urbes
Quem per & gentes radiante vexit
Gloria curru.
Pauper est, qui se caret; & superbe
Ipse se librans, sua rura latam
Addit in lancem, socioq; fallens
Pondus in auro,
Ceteris parvus, sibi magnus uni,
Ipse se nescit, pretioque falsa
Plebis attollit, propriaq; se mi-
ratur in umbra.
Splendidam vera sine luce gazam,
Turgidum plena sine laude nomen
Mitte; te solo, _Tiberine_, disces
Esse beatus.

To _Quintus Tiberinus_.

_Ode 34. Lib. 4._

Thou shalt not _Tiberinus_, call
Him rich, whose every Acre shall
Outvie the Easterne glebe, whose field
Faire Fortune's clearest streame doth gild.
Nor him, whose birth, and pedigree
Is fam'd abroad by's Heraldrie;
Hee who by fleeting glory's hurld
In his rich Chariot through the world:
He's poore that wants himselfe, yet weighs
Proudly himselfe; in this scale layes
His lands, in th'other broad one, by,
The false weight of his gold doth lye,
Great to himselfe, to others small,
That never knowes himselfe at all,
As the false people raise him higher,
Himselfe in's shadow hee'l admire.
The fairest Gemme without true light,
Without true praise great titles, flight:
Blest _Tiberinus_, and most free