I am a "coach" in Roman law by fate, But Nature must have meant me for a poet, And while I struggle with a rule or date, Poetic thoughts intrude before I know it. ...
A thousand doubts and pleadings in a day Are filed in Empress Reason's court supreme By angry Love--his eyes with anger gleam. "Which of us twain hath been more faithful, say....
Tell me, proud Rome, why dost these edicts read, These many laws by prince or people made, Or answers by the prudent duly weighed, When now thou canst the world no longer lead?...