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what of all that, if he be a fool? even pleasure and good fortune are not relished without vigour and understanding: "Haec perinde sunt, ut ilius animus; qui ea possidet Qui uti scit, ei bona; illi, qui non uritur recte, mala." Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate to relish them. The possessor must be healthy, if he thinks to make good use of his realised wealth.

"Haec operis forma est: sic nobilis uritur Aetna: Terra foraminibus vires trahit, urget in artum, Spiritus incendit: vivit per maxima saxa." The poem concludes with an account of a former eruption, signalised by the miraculous preservation of two pious youths who ventured into the burning shower to carry their parents into a place of safety.

Moreover, Qui tacitus ardet magis uritur. In trying times like these, the besetting sin of undisciplined minds is to seek refuge from inexplicable realities in the dangerous stimulant of angry partisanship or the indolent narcotick of vague and hopeful vaticination; fortunamque suo temperat arbitrio. Both by reason of my age and my natural temperament, I am unfitted for either.

"If she be not very good we will burn her, my friend. Uritur infelix Dido, totaque videtur Urbe furens!" His eyes were cruel, and he licked his lips as he applied the quotation.