Aliud retrogrado sensu (c.1579-80)

See introduction to d2_RolH_008. Metre: elegiac couplets.

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Aliud retrogrado sensu

Vis fera, non pia te ducit lex: aeris acervo
constat, non meritis laus tua nobilibus.

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Another in reverse fashion

Fierce strength, not pious law, guides you: your praise is given in accord with a pile of money, not with noble merits.