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Animula vagula, blandula, que nunc abibis in loca? [Poor futtering, coaxing soul of mine, What new abode shall now be thine?]

Budæus well hath it, "so many good parts, so many ensigns of arts, virtues, be slavishly obnoxious to some illiterate potentate, and live under his insolent worship, or honour, like parasites…”

prodigia in obitu principum sæpius contingunt

[prodigies frequently occur at the deaths of illustrious men]

sine sanguine et dolore; similes fere diis sunt [without blood or feeling; they are almost like the gods]

omne sub regno graviore regnum [every throne is subject to a greater throne]

Prosperum et felix scelus virtus vocatur [vice, when successful, is called virtue]

“All my joys to this are folly,
None so divine as melancholy.”