"aedificatio, neque vasum, neque vestimentum ullum est manupreciosum, neque preciosus servus, neque ancilla est: si quid est," inquit, "quod utar, utor: si non est, egeo: suum cuique per me uti atque frui licet.

Harueiusque bonus, (charus licet omnibus idem,)

&c. Plura vellem per Charites, sed non licet per Musas.

, licet prudentiores subrideant.

Verum age si forsan divertat purior hospes, Cuique sales, ludi, displiceantque joci, Objiciatque tibi sordes, lascivaque: dices, Lasciva est Domino et Musa jocosa tuo, Nec lasciva tamen, si pensitet omne; sed esto; Sit lasciva licet pagina, vita proba est.

Oppose then what thou wilt, "Allatres licet usque nos et usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas.

[107] "Nasutus cis usque licet, sis denique nasus: Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas, Ipse ego quam dixi, &c." "Wert thou all scoffs and flouts, a very Momus, Than we ourselves, thou canst not say worse of us.

all senators, magistrates; for all fortunate men are wise, and conquerors valiant, and so are all great men, non est bonum ludere cum diis, they are wise by authority, good by their office and place, his licet impune pessimos esse, (some say) we must not speak of them, neither is it fit; per me sint omnia protinus alba, I will not think amiss of them.

If any be displeased, or take aught unto himself, let him not expostulate or cavil with him that said it (so did [802]Erasmus excuse himself to Dorpius, si parva licet componere magnis) and so do I; "but let him be angry with himself, that so betrayed and opened his own faults in applying it to himself:" [803]"if he be guilty and deserve it, let him amend, whoever he is, and not be angry."

Is fletu, his risu modo gaudeat, unus utrique Sit licet usque labor, sit licet usque dolor.

Is fletu, his risu modo gaudeat, unus utrique Sit licet usque labor, sit licet usque dolor.

"Licet superbus ambulet pecunia, Fortuna non mutat genus.

Crassi licet, non hos Pactolus aureas undas agens, eripiat unquum e miseriis, Croesus or rich Crassus cannot now command health, or get himself a stomach.

Si parva licet componere magnis, thou mayst do the like, and therefore be composed in thy fortune.

[3805] "nempe pecus, rem, Lectos, argentum tollas licet; in manicis, et Compedibus saevo teneas custode" "Perhaps, you mean, My cattle, money, movables or land, Then take them all.

Conform thyself then to thy present fortune, and cut thy coat according to thy cloth, Ut quimus (quod aiunt) quando quod volumus non licet, "Be contented with thy loss, state, and calling, whatsoever it is, and rest as well satisfied with thy present condition in this life:" "Este quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quamlibet esse; Quod non es, nolis; quod potus esse, velis.

" As Socrates told Crito, it concerns me not what is done with me when I am dead; Facilis jactura sepulchri: I care not so long as I feel it not; let them set mine head on the pike of Tenerife, and my quarters in the four parts of the world,pascam licet in cruce corvos, let wolves or bears devour me;Caelo

"How many murders they make in a year," quibus impune licet hominem occidere, "that may freely kill folks," and have a reward for it, and according to the Dutch proverb, a new physician must have a new churchyard; and who daily observes it not?

"Bacchus et afflictis requiem mortalibus affert, Crura licet duro compede vincta forent.

"Quo fugis ab demens, nulla est fuga, tu licet usque Ad Tanaim fugias, usque sequetur amor.

For commonly princes and great men make no scruple at all of such matters, but with that whore in Spartian, quicquid libet licet, they think they may do what they list, profess it publicly, and rather brag with Proculus (that writ to a friend of his in Rome, what famous exploits he had done in that kind) than any way be abashed at it.

Dic igitur o fomose, adolescens (as that eloquent Phavorinus breaks out in Stobeus) dic Autiloque, suavius nectare loqueris; dic o Telemache, vehementius Ulysse dicis; dic Alcibiades utcunque ebrius, libentius tibi licet ebrio auscultabimus.

Undecim aureos deposui, quo die, quidquid ante matris funus (quod serum sit precor) de paternis bonis sperare licet, viginti scilicet libras, accepi.

[t] Haec eadem licet et nobis laudare: sed illis Creditur.

[a]Seu te saeva fames, levitas sive improba fecit, Musca, meae comitem, participemque dapis, Pone metum, rostrum fidens immitte culullo, Nam licet, et toto prolue laeta mero.