reapers, in thick throngs,
Return home from the field with songs,
And the carts, laden with ripe corn,
Come groaning to the well-stor'd barn.
Nor pass we by, as the least good,
A peaceful, loving neighbourhood,
Whose honest wit, and chaste discourse
Make none--by hearing it--the worse,
But innocent and merry, may
Help--without sin--to spend the day.
Could now the tyrant usurer,
Who plots to be a purchaser
Of his poor neighbour's seat, but taste
These true delights, O! with what haste
And hatred of his ways, would he
Renounce his Jewish cruelty,
And those curs'd sums, which poor men borrow
On use to-day, remit to-morrow!

AD FLUVIUM ISCAM.

Isca parens florum, placido qui spumeus ore
Lambis lapillos aureos;
Qui maestos hyacinthos, et picti [Greek: anthea] tophi
Mulces susurris humidis;
Dumque novas pergunt menses consumere lunas
C[oe]lumque mortales terit,
Accumulas cum sole dies, aevumque per omne
Fidelis induras latex;
O quis inaccessos et quali murmure lucos
Mutumque solaris nemus!
Per te discerpti credo Thracis ire querelas
Plectrumque divini senis.

VENERABILI VIRO PRAECEPTORI SUO OLIM ET SEMPER COLENDISSIMO MAGISTRO
MATHAEO HERBERT.

Quod vixi, Mathaee, dedit pater, haec tamen olim
Vita fluat, nec erit fas meminisse datam.
Ultra curasti solers, perituraque mecum
Nomina post cineres das resonare meos.
Divide discipulum: brevis haec et lubrica nostri
Pars vertat patri, posthuma vita tibi.

PRAESTANTISSIMO VIRO THOMAE POELLO IN SUUM DE ELEMENTIS OPTICAE
LIBELLUM.[56]

Vivaces oculorum ignes et lumina dia
Fixit in angusto maximus orbe Deus;
Ille explorantes radios dedit, et vaga lustra
In quibus intuitus lexque, modusque latent.
Hos tacitos jactus, lususque, volubilis orbis
Pingis in exiguo, magne[57] Poelle, libro,
Excursusque situsque ut Lynceus opticus, edis,
Quotque modis fallunt, quotque adhibenda fides.
Aemula Naturae manus! et mens conscia c[oe]li.
Ilia videre dedit, vestra videre docet.

FOOTNOTES:

[56] The version in _Elementa Opticae_ has _Eximio viro, et amicorum
longe optimo, T. P. in hunc suum de Elementis Opticae libellum_.

[57] _El. Opt._ has _docte_.

AD ECHUM.

O quae frondosae per am[oe]na