Patience.
Patientia.
[Illustration]
_Patience_, 1.
endureth _Calamities_, 2.
and _Wrongs_, 3. meekly
like a _Lamb_, 4.
as the Fatherly
_chastisement of God_, 5.
_Patientia_, 1.
tolerat _Calamitates_, 2.
& _Injurias_, 3. humiliter
ut _Agnus_, 4.
tanquam paternam
_ferulam Dei_, 5.
In the meanwhile she leaneth
upon the _Anchor of Hope_, 6.
(as a _Ship_, 7.
tossed by waves in the Sea)
Interim innititur
_Spei Anchoræ_, 6.
(ut _Navis_, 7.
fluctuans mari)
_she prayeth to God_, 8.
weeping,
and expecteth the _Sun_, 10.
after _cloudy weather_, 9.
suffering evils,
and hoping better things.
_Deo supplicat_, 8.
illacrymando,
& expectat _Phœbum_, 10.
post _Nubila_, 9.
ferens mala,
sperans meliora.
On the contrary,
the _impatient person_, 11.
waileth, lamenteth,
_rageth against himself_, 12.
Contra,
_Impatiens_, 11.
plorat, lamentatur,
_debacchatur_, 12. _in seipsum_,
grumbleth like a _Dog_, 13.
and yet doth no good;
at the last he despaireth,
and becometh
_his own Murtherer_, 14.
obmurmurat ut _Canis_, 13.
& tamen nil proficit;
tandem desperat,
& fit
_Autochir_, 14.
Being full of rage he desireth
to revenge wrongs.
Furibundus cupit
vindicare injurias.