_Ardeo incredibili cupididate_, &c. "I burn with an
incredible desire to have my [1928]name registered in thy book." Out of
this fountain proceed all those cracks and brags,--[1929]_speramus carmina
fingi Posse linenda cedro, et leni servanda cupresso_--[1930]_Non usitata
nec tenui ferar penna.--nec in terra morabor longius. Nil parvum aut humili
modo, nil mortale loquor. Dicar qua violens obstrepit Ausidus.--Exegi
monumentum aere perennius. Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec
ignis, &c. cum venit ille dies, &c. parte tamen meliore mei super alta
perennis astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum_. (This of Ovid I
have paraphrased in English.)

"And when I am dead and gone,
My corpse laid under a stone
My fame shall yet survive,
And I shall be alive,
In these my works for ever,
My glory shall persever," &c.

And that of Ennius,

"Nemo me lachrymis decoret, neque funera fletu
Faxit, cur? volito docta per ora virum."

"Let none shed tears over me, or adorn my bier with sorrow--because I am
eternally in the mouths of men." With many such proud strains, and foolish
flashes too common with writers. Not so much as Democharis on the [1931]
Topics, but he will be immortal. _Typotius de fama_, shall be famous, and
well he deserves, because he writ of fame; and every trivial poet must be
renowned,--_Plausuque petit clarescere vulgi_. "He seeks the applause of
the public." This puffing humour it is, that hath produced so many great
tomes, built such famous monuments, strong castles, and Mausolean tombs, to
have their acts eternised,--_Digito monstrari, et dicier hic est_; "to be
pointed at with the finger, and to have it said 'there he goes,'" to see
their names inscribed, as Phryne on the walls of Thebes, _Phryne fecit_;
this causeth so many bloody battles,--_Et noctes cogit vigilare serenas_;
"and induces us to watch during calm nights." Long journeys, _Magnum iter
intendo, sed dat mihi gloria vires_, "I contemplate a monstrous journey,
but the love of glory strengthens me for it," gaining honour, a little
applause, pride, self-love, vainglory. This is it which makes them take
such pains, and break out into those ridiculous strains, this high conceit
of themselves, to [1932]scorn all others; _ridiculo fastu et intolerando
contemptu_; as [1933]Palaemon the grammarian contemned Varro, _secum et
natas et morituras literas jactans_, and brings them to that