Book II, Epigram 64: In Taurum

While now thou'lt Lawyer be, now Rhetorician,
And knowst not to make forth thy wishd condition,
Peleus, and Priam's, Nestor's age slips by,
And it was grown too late for thee to try;
Begin: three Rhetoricians dyed one yeare!
Ifthou hast any skill or stomack here?
If Schools dislike? Courts swarm with the old trade,
And Marsya's self a Lawyer may be made.
Fie, out with this delay: how long shall wee
Expect? whiles doubting, nothing thou wilt bee.