quo dum per otium genas siccat: vellem, inquit, ad pannum similis officii aliquod tetrastichon mihi scribi iuberes.
While he was drying his cheeks with it in leisurely fashion he remarked: I wish you would command to be written for me a quartet of verses in honour of this cloth that has done me such a service.
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