Epithalamia in nuptiis ornatissimi humanissimique viri domini m. Ioannis Stridacheri, Tettnangensis, in alma Friburgi Brisgoici schola artium decurionis dignissimi, ethicesque professoris ibidem: et honestissimae, pudicissimaeque virginis Agathae Schnelliae, Tettnangensis

repelling the dangers of our affairs,
or the disgraces with which the enemy Tritonis Minerva had afflicted us:
afterward, let us also attempt to draw those associates received on high Helicon
by furies, and by allures,
let us return laden with the spoils of the Pierides the Muses equally,
let us throw our gifts, playing, before Minerva,
useful and opulent, therefore not vain, just as
when the Muses grant small gifts to their own offspring,
they promise shades empty of skillful cares:
we promise marriages. But it is better to explore new arts
by which I may accomplish these things. And having waited a little,
and holding her eyes turned away, fixed on the dust,
the nurturing Venus, having meditated on deceits, speaks with this voice:
If an abundance of much Pierian booty is not to be captured
just now: yet here, one out of thousands, it happens,
is in our way to run into our nets with impunity,
whom no obstacles now forbid, no occasion.
And if I remember well, he will not despise the fires,
with which, if you look ahead, you will be able to inflame him.
In what way you can do that, therefore grasp our mind
now, my offspring, and take up the commands.
Fame recently flying has come to my ears,
as if the chorus of the Aonides the Muses with strong efforts
might desire to bind him whom I mentioned, by a wondrous
or recent cleverness, perpetually to the Pymplean related to the Muses realm,
singing sweetly with the false mouth of Sirens,
with flatteries always prepared in another way:
For besides his own, which he composed in the time of Daphne,
and formerly adorned with many honorable titles,
(Truly