Among other woods are the lignum-vitae, granadilla, the coco-wood, and the Cedrela Odorata (fragrant cedar) which is used for cigar boxes and the lining of cabinet work.

" Sir Gyles Goosecappe is the work of one who had chosen the "fallentis semita vitae"; who was more at home in Academic cloisters than in the crowded highways of the world.

"Ita vita est hominum quasi cum ludas tesseris, Si illud

Steriles transmisimus annos, Haec aevi mihi prima dies, haec limina vitae.

Peri tamen studio et pietate conscribendae vitae ejus munus suscepi, et postquam sumptuosa condere pro fortuna non licuit, exiguo sed eo forte liberalis ingenii monumento justa sanctissimo cineri solventur. 4583.

Minuuntur atrae conjuge curae, women are the sole, only joy, and comfort of a man's life, born ad usum et lusum hominum, firmamenta familiae, "Delitiae humani generis, solatia vitae.

Summe dator vitae, naturae aeterne magister, Causarum series quo moderante fluit, Respice quem subiget senium, morbique seniles, Quem terret vitae meta propinqua suae, Respice inutiliter lapsi quem poenitet aevi; Recte ut poeniteat, respice, magne parens.

Hominibus vitas finis mors, non autem superstitionis, profert haec suos terminos ultra vitae finem. 6548.

Hominibus vitas finis mors, non autem superstitionis, profert haec suos terminos ultra vitae finem. 6548.

Quae, sine morte, fuga est vitae, quam turba malorum Non vitanda gravem, non toleranda facit?

Writing also in 1548 to Granvella he refers to his "vechia vita."

Virgil not only implies, he often clearly states, the original epic values of life, the Homeric values; as in the famous: Stat sua cuique dies; breve et inreparabile tempus Omnibus est vitae: sed famam extendere factis, Hoc virtutis opus.[10]