Quare ergo plura in quarto Silvarum quam in prioribus? ne se putent aliquid egisse qui reprehenderunt, ut audio, quod hoc stili genus edidissem.
So why are there more items in the fourth book of my Extempore Poems than in its forerunners? Because I dont want those who, as I am told, criticized my publishing this kind of composition to think that their strictures have had any effect.
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