Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope"Ludovici Areosti humantur ossa Sub hoc marmore, vel sub hac humo, seu Sub quicquid voluit benignus haeres Siv haerede benignior comes, seu Opportunius incidens Viator: Nam scire haud potuit futura, sed nec Tanti erat vacuum sibi cadaver Ut utnam cuperet parere vivens, Vivens ista tamen sibi paravit.
Quae inscribi voluit suo sepulchro Olim siquod haberetis sepulchrum."
Surely Ariosto did not venture to expect that his trifle would have ever had such an ill.u.s.trious imitator.