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<p><term id="embstma_1667_22301"/>WHEN that <persName>OPIMVS</persName> ritche, had scraped manie a pounde;<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_22302"/>And fil'd his baggs, & coffers full, that wealthe did most abounde.<lb/> Yet liu'd hee still in awe, as if it weare offence<lb/> To ope his purce, for any neede; hee spared so his pence.<lb/> At lengthe, this greedie carle the Lythergie posseste:<lb/> That vnneth hee could stere a foote, with sleepe sos ore oppreste.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_22303"/>And languishinge therein, not like for to escape:<lb/> His heire, was ioyfull of that sighte, who for his goodes did gape.<lb/> But, when that nothinge coulde <persName>OPIMVS</persName> sleepinge let,<lb/> The quike Phisition did commaunde, that tables shoulde bee set<lb/> About the misers bed, and budgettes forthe to bringe,<lb/> And poure the goulde vppon the bourde, that hee mighte heare it ringe.<lb/> And bad the heire to tell, and all the standers bye:<lb/> With that, hee to the sicke man call'de, what meane you thus to lye?<lb/> And will not haue regarde your treasure to preserue:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_22304"/>Behoulde your heire, and all the reste, howe largely nowe they carue?<lb/> With that, hee started vp; halfe dead, and halfe a liue;<lb/> And staringe on his heapes of goulde, longe time for life did striue.<lb/> So that, when nothinge coulde his drousie eies awake,<lb/> Such vertue, had the sighte of goulde, that sleepe did him forsake.<lb/> Which showes, when dreadfull deathe presentes the lastinge sleepe:<lb/> They hardly can departe in peace, whose goulde is rooted deepe.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_22305"/><foreign lang="la">Effigiem <persName>Rex Croese</persName> tuam ditissime Regum<lb/> Vidit apud <persName type="mythological">Manes</persName>, <persName>Diogenes</persName> <rs>Cynicus</rs>.<lb/> Constitit vtque procul solito maiore cachinno<lb/> Concussus, dixit. quid tibi diuitis<lb/> Nunc prosunt Regum Rex ô ditissime, cùm sis<lb/> Sicut ego solus, me quoque pauperiori?<lb/> Nam quaecunq. habui, mecum fero, cùm nihil ipse<lb/> Ex tantis tecum <persName>Croese</persName> feras opibus.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_22301" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Serm. lib. 2.<lb/> Satyra 3.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_22302" lang="la"><name type="author">Demosth.</name> apud <name type="author">Volat.</name><lb/> Qui animum curat,<lb/> seipsum curat: qui<lb/> corpus, non se sed<lb/> sua curat: qui pe-<lb/> cuniam, non se, nec<lb/> sua curat, sed valdè<lb/> aliena curat.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_22303" lang="la"><name type="author">Plut.</name> de Polit.<lb/> Maiori odio diui-<lb/> tem populus perse-<lb/> qui solet, nihil per<lb/> benignitaté & gra-<lb/> tiam depromentem,<lb/> qum inopem, qui<lb/> bona subripiat pub-<lb/> lica. hoc enim ne-<lb/> cessitate domina sti-<lb/> mulante, illud ma-<lb/> lignitate, atq. con-<lb/> temptu fieri arbi-<lb/> tratur.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_22304" lang="la"><name type="author">Gregor.</name> in Homil.<lb/> Res suas cum mo-<lb/> reretur, diues secum<lb/> tolleret, si ad peten-<lb/> tis vocem, cum vi-<lb/> ueret, tulisset: nam<lb/> terrena omnia, quae<lb/> seruando amitti-<lb/> mus, largiendo ser-<lb/> uamus.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_22305" lang="la"><name type="author">Auson.</name> in Epig 55.</gloss> </p> |
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Opimius was a rich usurer in the age of Horace |
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A physician tries to cure the ill miser Opimius whose heirs are already assessing his wealth by checking his treasure-chests |
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