_Hydropicus sanatus, Christum jam sitiens._ Luc. xiv. 4.
Pellitur inde sitis, sed et hinc sitis altera surgit;
Hinc sitit ille magis, quo sitit inde minus.
Felix o, et mortem poterit qui temnere morbus;
Cui vitae ex ipso fonte sititur aqua.
_The dropsical man thirsting now for Christ._
Thy dropsy's quench'd, but other thirst now rises,
Which craves the more, the less the former thirsts.
O happy malady, which death despises:
Thirst for the stream which from life's fountain bursts. G.