INTRODUCTION. 
Gesta sub involucris mentis, clarescere querunt. — 
Eruta de tenebris cupiunt sub luce videri, 
Tecta patent: obscura nitent: scintillaque mentis 
ulgurat, accenditque novum fax ignea vatem. 
De tepida concepta priis, tenuique favilla 
Jam larg? rutilos emittit lampadis ignes. 
Provehitur seges. in culmum, forcundaque multo 
rdine granorum canis albescit aristis, 
Granaque prosiliunt studii concussa flagello. 
Vinea turgescit botris, jam palmes adultus 
Germinat, et sterili vindemia pendet in ulmo. 
After fifteen more lines, in which he apologise 
for the rudeness of his verse, he proceeds to invoke 
the muse : 
Lauro nexa comas, vulttis pallore decenti, 
Et facie macr& famulam confessa Minerve, 
Ex Helicone suo migrans, in pectoris alti 
Transmeat occultos non invitata recessus : 
Afterwards he addresses his poem : 
Vade liber felix. Nam cum provectior wtas — 
Jam tua sit, densisque habeas pubescere plums, 
Dedecus esse potest puerili incumbere nido, 
Et cunas colere balbis infantibus apta 
I, cave ne titubes, firmo vestigia gressu 
irige, cum rectis habeas procedere talis, 
