Fattening through the endless summer, Like his own provision ground, He had reached the summum bonum Which our latest wits have found.

And thus he sets forth the results of his four days' deliberation: "'De mortuis nil nisi bonum.'

'Tis the summum bonum of our tradesmen, their felicity, life, and soul, Tanta dulcedine affectant, saith Pliny, lib. 14.