AUSONIUS LIB. I. EPIG. <br /> <br />Thesauro invento qui limina mortis inibat, <br /> Liquit ovans laqueum, quo periturus erat; <br />At qui, quod terrae abdiderat, non repperit aurum, <br /> Quem laqueum invenit nexuit, et periit. <br /> <br /> ENGLISHED. <br /> <br />A treasure found one, entring at death's gate, <br />Triumphing leaves that cord, was meant his fate; <br />But he the gold missing, which he did hide, <br />The halter which he found he knit: so dy'd.<br /><br />Richard Lovelace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ausonius-lib-i-epig/
