And again, we may turn to Petrarch's hymn to the Virgin, wherein he prays to be delivered from his love and everlasting regrets for Laura: "Vergine bella, che di sol vestita, Coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole Piacesti sì, che'n te sua luce ascose.

[Sp.], crazy people and children tell the truth; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Lat.]

After the Aeneid, the epic style must be of this fashion: Ibant ovscuri sola sub nocte per umbram Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna: Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra Jupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.

[3720]"If fortune hath envied me wealth, thieves have robbed me, my father have not left me such revenues as others have," that I am a younger brother, basely born,cui sine luce genus, surdumque parentumnomen, of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber's son, am I therefore to be blamed?

'Quale per incertam Lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in Sylvis:' Virg.

Axicchus the philosopher was bold and courageous all his life, and gave good precepts de contemnenda morte, and against the vanity of the world, to others; but being now ready to die himself, he was mightily dejected, hac luce privabor?

Lumen a luce provenit, lux est in corpore lucido.

Natus eram lacrymans, lacrymans e luce recedo: Sunt quibus a lacrymis vix vacat ulla dies.

"Ut facibus sepes ardent, cum forte viator Vel nimis admovit, vel jam sub luce reliquit.

Indue reginam, turritae frontis honores Tolle Salema sacros, quam circum gloria pennas Explicat, incinctam radiatae luce tiaras!

Hunc gestant ulnis angeli, Ne lapis officiat pedi; Ne luce timor occupet, Aut nocte pestis incubet.