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

Which you cannot render in a skillful verse,
unless it be exercised in frequent meters by talent:
a field wide enough is opened to you from there for a poem,
which you might be able to draw out with this long thread.
So that you may be able to do this, may the Muses saturate you from the fountain
which the hoof of the horse of Bellerophon Pegasus, the source of poetic inspiration brought forth.
Now farewell, and exercise these things in your deepest senses by remembering them,
you will experience the outcome, and you will note the present.
Thus far the bow-bearing Love. And when he had finished
saying many things, more quickly than the word he turned into the breezes,
here he vanished and put off his mortal limbs.
But I, not credulous of him while he boasted such things,
remained ignorant of affairs and uncertain of the future,
until, some days later, I saw everything mindful,
after the Titan the Sun moved through the signs of the Twins Gemini,
and when Maia the mother of Mercury/Venus's companion had long since risen with her sisters.
Behold, in swarms the Cretan Ida is seen,
a huge band of Nymphs, a huge assembly of Gods
flowing together: the Oceanides here, and the maidens of the groves
appear, and the Oreades, and the Napaeae hasten,
the Naiads, the Dryads, the Graces, and also bright Chloris:
Behind them Erato, joined twice to the four Muses,
armed with linen folds, and she shines with a light neck,
an example and light of cultivated youth.
Phoebus mingles himself with them, then the bridesmaid Juno,
hoary Faith, Peace, and Concord with a charming step
proceed, Hymen, having his temples bound with garlands,
carries in his hands those things which he then nourishes with a torch wick:
the purple boy, covered with fiery eyes,