EXPOSTULATIO JESU CHRISTI CUM MUNDO INGRATO. Sum pulcher: at nemo tamem me diligit. Sum nobilis: nemo est mihi qui serviat. Sum dives: a me nemo quicquam postulat. Et cuncta possum: nemo me tamen timet. Aeternus exsto: quaeror a paucissimis. Prudensque sum: sed me quis est qui consulit? Et sum Via: at per me quotusquisque ambulat? Sum Veritas: quare mihi non creditur? Sum Vita: verum rarus est qui me petit. Sum Vera Lux: videre me nemo cupit. Sum misericors: nullus fidem in me collocat. Tu, si peris, non id mihi imputes, homo: Salus tibi est a me parata: hac utere.[97] TRANSLATION. JESUS CHRIST'S EXPOSTULATION WITH AN UNGRATEFUL WORLD. I am all-fair, yet no one loveth Me: Noble, yet no one would My servant be: Rich, yet no suppliant at My gate appears: Almighty, yet before Me no one fears: Eternal, I by very few am sought: Wise am I, yet My counsel goes for nought: I am the Way, yet by Me walks scarce one: The Truth, why am I not relied upon? The Life, yet seldom one My help requires: The True Light, yet to see Me none desires: And I am merciful, yet none is known To place his confidence in Me alone. Man, if thou perish, 'tis that thou dost choose it; Salvation I have wrought for thee, O use it! R. WI. Latin Poems. PART SECOND. SECULAR. I. FROM 'STEPS TO THE TEMPLE' AND 'DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES,' ETC. 1646-1648. NOTE. Among the English poems of the 'Steps to the Temple' and 'Delights of the Muses' of 1646 were the following, in order: In Picturam Reverendissimi Episcopi D. Andrews (p. 89)--Epitaphium in Dominum Herrisium (pp. 92-3)--Principi recens natae omen maternae indolis (pp. 108-9)--In Serenissimae Reginae partum hyemalem (pp. 118-9)--Ad Reginam (pp. 121-2)--In faciem Augustiss. Regis a morbillis integram (p. 127)--Rex Redux (pp. 131-2), and Ad Principem nondum natum (p. 133). In the enlarged edition of 1648 besides these, there appeared: Bulla (pp. 54-58)--Thesaurus Malorum Foemina (p. 59)--In Apollinea depereuntem Daphnen (pp. 60-1)--Aeneas Patris sui Bajulus (p. 61)--In Pygmaliona (p. 61)--Arion (pp. 61-2)--Phœnicis Genethliacon et Epicedion (p. 63)--Epitaphium (p. 64)--Damno affici saepe fit Lucrum (pp. 64-5)--Humanae Vitae Descriptio (p. 65)--Tranquillitas Animi, Similitudine ducta ab Ave captiva et canora tamen (pp. 66-7). These Poems I have arranged under two classes: (_a_) Miscellaneous, really, not merely formally, poetry: (_b_) Royal and other commemorative pieces. The former in the present section, the latter in the next. See our Essay on each. Nearly the whole of the translations in this division are by myself, with additional renderings of some by Rev. Thomas Ashe, M.A., as before, and others by Rev. Richard Wilton, M.A., as before, as pointed out in the places.