Ausonius Lib I Epig

By Richard Lovelace

            AUSONIUS LIB. I. EPIG.

Thesauro invento qui limina mortis inibat,

  Liquit ovans laqueum, quo periturus erat;

At qui, quod terrae abdiderat, non repperit aurum,

  Quem laqueum invenit nexuit, et periit.

                  ENGLISHED.

A treasure found one, entring at death's gate,

Triumphing leaves that cord, was meant his fate;

But he the gold missing, which he did hide,

The halter which he found he knit: so dy'd.