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

They praise the private industry of the house, the threads,
the learned hand to run through with a learned comb, to turn
the spindles: am I mistaken, or can they, while she is tightening,
make tapestries, or can wool lie about various colors?
A maiden finally most known to many women’s quarters,
easily surpasses Hebe, the one presiding over the tables of the gods.
Enough depicted for me now, but boy, I beg you, proceed
to the same one, for the priest from the clear flock of the Muses,
whom the one born of Jove Minerva, energetic, entices with her own garlands,
adorn his encomiums with magnificent sounding words,
agglomerate gifts, and add praises to praises,
add faith, you will conquer, you will conquer, believe me, suddenly,
only be moved away from the way started under my auspices.
Thus difficult glory will be given to the victor, the Nymph
will be a gift to the vanquished, whom it pleases to join here
from the first omens (of which the Garamantes are held
to be ignorant), she will rejoice here as a spouse with a companion.
Hence there will also be eight months, while all things are done,
unless these oracles have reported these things to me in vain a while ago,
which I remember just now, false ones? Oracles scarcely fail.
More swiftly therefore carry your steps to the walls
which antiquity said about the freedom of the pyre:
here that man teaches, and inculcates honest morals,
with the Stagyrite Aristotle as the presiding professor of virtues,
overcome him cautiously, soothe him affably, urge him
untiringly with exhortation, and use a medicated rod.
While you are away, and you are solving the commands of your dear parent,
we shall cause the sacred Deities to be summoned
over the Idalian the sacred mountain of Venus seat, and we shall enjoy the assembly.