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One of the tests of virtue is noticed, "lac in ubere". That favourite "motif", the "Patient Grizzle", occurs, rather, however, in the Border ballad than the Petrarcan form. "Good wives" die with their husbands as they have vowed, or of grief for their loss, and are wholly devoted to their interests.
In front of the elegant Borghese entrance, and round the Park lodge, all strewn about in picturesque disarray, we behold one of those numerous herds of goats, which come in every morning, to be milked at the different houseouse doors: their udders at present are brimful, and almost touch the lintel of the gate where they are standing "gravido superant vix ubere limen;" and though they are emptied continually, soon fill again,
And thus indeed you shall attain to Virgil's character which he gives to ancient Italy: Terra potens armis atque ubere glebae. And therefore out of all questions, the splendor and magnificence, and great retinues and hospitality, of noblemen and gentlemen, received into custom, doth much conduce unto martial greatness.
As Palladius says, "Et injussu consternitur ubere mali": And the ground is strewn with the fruit of an unbidden apple-tree. It is an old notion, that, if these wild trees do not bear a valuable fruit of their own, they are the best stocks by which to transmit to posterity the most highly prized qualities of others.
Continuo auditae voces, vagitus et ingens, Infantumque animae flentes, in limine primo, Quos dulcis vitae exsortes, et ab ubere raptos, Abstulit atra dies, et FUNERE MERSIT ACERBO! As Mr Escot said this, a little rosy-cheeked girl, with a basket of heath on her head, came tripping down the side of one of the rocks on the left.
unhappy in that they had but entered upon life and never known the sweetness of it, and whom, torn from their mothers' breasts, a dark day had cut off and drowned in bitter death Quos dulcis vitæ exsortes et at ubere raptos Abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo. But what life did they lose, if they neither knew life nor longed for it? And yet is it true that they never longed for it?
As Palladius says, "Et injussu consternitur ubere mali": And the ground is strewn with the fruit of an unbidden apple-tree. It is an old notion, that, if these wild trees do not bear a valuable fruit of their own, they are the best stocks by which to transmit to posterity the most highly prized qualities of others.
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