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Thus leading a quiet and contented life, I had leisure sometimes to write a copy of verses on one occasion or another, as the poetic vein naturally opened, without taking pains to polish them. Such was this which follows, occasioned by the sudden death of some lusty people in their full strength: EST VITA CADUCA.
"By making thee a Prince of Peru, my lord of the northern latitudes; propping thine old castle with ingots, fertilizing thy failing fortunes with gold dust it shall but cost thee to put thy baron's coronet for a day or so on the brows of an old Caduca here, the man's daughter of the house, and thou art master of a mass of treasure that shall do all I have said for thee, and "
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