The Eighth Chapter: Of Idlenesse

Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumnen ahenis Sole repercwsum, aut radiantis imagine Lunæ, Omnia pervolitat late loca jamque sub auras Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti.—Virgil. Æn. viii. 22.

As trembling light reflected from the Sunne, Or radiant Moone on water-fild brasse lavers, Flies over all, in aire unpraised soone, Strikes house-top beames, betwixt both strangely wavers.

—-velut ægri somnia, vanæ Finguntur species.—Horace. Art. Poet. vii.

Like sicke mens dreames, that feigne Imaginations vaine.

Quisquis ubigue habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat. Martial. vii. Epig. 72, 6.

Good sir, he that dwels everywhere, No where can say, that he dwels there.

Variam semper dant otia mentem.—Lucan. iv. 704.

Evermore idlenesse, Doth wavering mindes addresse.