Excerpt from The First Satire of Juvenal: Translated Into English Verse Time was I wrote because, forsooth, I must; The task undone had brought the teacher's rod. But now I fear no ferule, for I've writ On all the threadbare topics of the schools, How Sylla should the sovereign power resign And sleep till noon at ease in private life. Since then the boy could write with all the rest, Why should not now the man take up the pen? 'tis foolish, since each quarter of the town Is crowded with its host of scribbling bards, To spare the paper they will surely spoil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.