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He hums about Westminster Hall, and returns home with his pockets like a bee with his thighs laden; and that which Horace says of an ant, Ore trahit quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo, is true of him, for he gathers all his heap with the labour of his mouth rather than his brain and hands.
As to what remains, in a great battle where ten thousand men are maimed or killed, there are not fifteen who are taken notice of; it must be some very eminent greatness, or some consequence of great importance that fortune has added to it, that signalises a private action, not of a harquebuser only, but of a great captain; for to kill a man, or two, or ten: to expose a man's self bravely to the utmost peril of death, is indeed something in every one of us, because we there hazard all; but for the world's concern, they are things so ordinary, and so many of them are every day seen, and there must of necessity be so many of the same kind to produce any notable effect, that we cannot expect any particular renown from it: "Casus multis hic cognitus, ac jam Tritus, et a medio fortunae ductus acervo."
And in my love of Nature more confiding and constant than ever is the love we bear to women I cry with the tender and sweet Tibullus, "'Ego composito securus acervo Despiciam dites, despiciamque famem."* * "Satisfied with my little hoard, I can despise wealth, and fear not hunger."
And in my love of Nature more confiding and constant than ever is the love we bear to women I cry with the tender and sweet Tibullus, "'Ego composito securus acervo Despiciam dites, despiciamque famem."* * "Satisfied with my little hoard, I can despise wealth, and fear not hunger."
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