o felix nimium, sapiens et rusticus idem, qui terras animumque colens inpendit utrisque curam pervigilem, quales quos inbuit auctor Christus, et adsumptis dedit haec praecepta colonis: semina cum sulcis committitis, arva cavete dura lapillorum macie, ne decidat illic quod seritur, primo quoniam praefertile germen luxuriat, suco mox deficiente sub aestu sideris igniferi sitiens torretur et aret; neve in spinosos incurrant semina vepres, aspera nam segetem surgentem vincula texunt ac fragiles calamos nodis rubus artat acutis; et ne iacta viae spargantur in aggere grana, haec avibus quia nuda patent passimque vorantur inmundisque iacent foeda ad ludibria corvis.
Thrice happy he, wise man and countryman too, who tends land and soul and spends sleepless care on both, like those whom Christ our Founder taught, and when he took them on as labourers in the field, thus instructed: When you commit the seeds to the furrows, beware of ground that is hard, stony, and poor, lest that which is sown fall there, for at first the shoot is very fertile and grows abundantly, but then the sap fails and the thirsty plant is scorched and dried up under the heat of the flaming sun. And let not the seeds run among thorny bushes, for their rough thongs entwine the corn as it rises, and the bramble chokes the frail stalks with its piercing bonds. Nor let the grains you cast be scattered on the highway, for these are exposed to the birds and are all devoured, lying there for uncleanly crows to make foul sport of them.
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