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Differt non aufert mortem longissima vita Sed differt multam cras hodiere mori. Quod nequeas vitare, fugis: Nec formidanda est. Plot frequently alludes to Dudley in his Natural History of Staffordshire, and when he does so he describes him as the "worshipful Dud Dudley," showing the estimation in which he was held by his contemporaries.
QUAM ... NEQUEAS: 'and if you cannot practise oratory yourself'. Evidently quam refers to oratio in the widest sense, not to the special style of oratory mentioned in the last sentence. With si nequeas cf. nisi exerceas in 21 with n. SCIPIONI ET LAELIO: 'a Scipio and a Laelius'; i.e.
And yet we make nothing of invoking God's assistance in our vices, and inviting Him into our unjust designs: "Quae, nisi seductis, nequeas committere divis"
It closes with a generous expression of unquestioning friendship that asks for no return: Quare illud satis est si te permittis amari Nam contra ut sit amor mutuus, unde mihi? Occulitur limine clausa viri. Dequa saepe tibi, non venit adhuc mihi; namque Si occulitur, longe est tangere quod nequeas. Venerit, audivi. I. 10, 82; Servius on Ecl. IX. 7; Berne Scholia on Ecl.
judging rightly enough of my own strength, that it was not capable of any great matters; and calling to mind the saying of the late Chancellor Olivier, that the French were like monkeys that swarm up a tree from branch to branch, and never stop till they come to the highest, and there shew their breech. "Turpe est, quod nequeas, capiti committere pondus, Et pressum inflexo mox dare terga genu."
EXERCEAS: the subject is the indefinite 'you' equivalent to 'one', τις: 'unless one were to practise it'. So 28 nequeas; 33 requiras. Cf. also Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 3 difficile est tenere quae acceperis, nisi exerceas. TARDIOR: 'unusually dull'; cf. Academ. 2, 97 Epicurus quem isti tardum putant. THEMISTOCLES: famed for his memory.
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