Et quae tecta superbis
Intrant nubila turribus.

From thence, farre off, the Temples wee'l behold,
And radiant Scutcheons all adorn'd with gold;
Then wee'l looke o're that double towre,
Th'extent of great _Palaemon_'s pow're.
How in a settled peace, and kingdomes rest
The easie people raise themselves, so blest!
Three Temples in three yeares w'have seen
To th'Citizens have reared been;
Where _Gediminian_ Rocks themselves extoll
With their plaine tops, and then the Capitol,
Those buildings, whose proud turrets stretch
Themselves to th'Cloudes, and stars doe reach:

Auget magna, Quies: exiguus labor
In majus modico provenit otio.
Hinc & terga virentum
Late prospice collium.
Quae nunc mobilibus nutat Etesiis,
Segni cana stetit sub nive populus:
Qui nunc defluit, alta
Haesit sub glacie latex:
Qui nunc purpureis floret ager rosis,
Immoto sterilis delituit gelu:
Verno quae strepit ales,
Hiberno tacuit die.
Ergo rumpe moras, & solidum gravi
Curae deme diem, quem tibi candidus
Spondet vesper, & albis
Cras Horae revehent equis.

Great things to greater growth doe thus increase,
And with least paines, improve themselves by peace.
Here, tops of Hills, themselves behold,
In all their flowry pride unfold.
The Poplar now that shakes, when th'East winds blow
Stood cloth'd in gray, under the ling'ring snow:
The Springs that now so nimbly rise,
Were all of late lock'd up, in Ice:
The fields that now with blushing Roses spread,
Lay barren, and in hardest frost all hid:
The birds which chirping sit i'th'Spring;
When Winter comes, forget to sing.
Breake off delayes then, and from grievous care
A constant day, set by; which th'ev'ning faire
Doth promise, and the next dayes Sun
With his white Steeds will freely run.

[Decoration]

_Ad Paulum Iordanum Vrsinum Bracciani Ducem._
Bracciani agri amoenitatem commendat, ad quam per ferias Septembres
secesserat Roma.

_Ode 1. Lib. Epod._

[Decoration]

To _Paulus Iordanus Vrsinus_, Duke of _Bracciano_.
Hee commends the pleasantnesse of the Countrey, where
in the feasts of _September_, he retyred from _Rome_.

_Ode 1. Lib. Epod._

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