The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
All things deteriorate in time.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces