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Can you guess who or when this was wrote

Celso Gaudere

To celsus, muse, my warmest wishes bear,

And if he kindly asks you how I fare,

Say, though I threaten many a fair design,

Nor happiness, nor wisdom, yet are mine.

Not that the driving rains my vineyards beat;

Not that my olives are destroyed by heat;

Not that my cattle pine in distant plains—

More in my mind than body lie my pains.

Reading I hate, and with unwilling ear

The voice of comfort or health I hear;

Friends or physicians I with pain endure,

Who strive this languor of my soul to cure.

Whate’er may hurt me I wish joy pursue;

Whate’er may do me good with horror view.

Inconstant as the wind, I various rove;

At Tibur, Rome; at Rome, I Tibur love.

Ask how he does; what happy arts support

His prince’s favor, nor offend the court;

If all be well, say first, that we rejoice,

And then, remember, with a gentlest voice

Instill this precept on his listening ear,

‘As you fortune, we shall celsus bear.’

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