 "Mariana" To my friends everything, To my enemies the law Proclaimed the ruler
To my King loyalty, To the Tyrant death Answered the courageous priest
The school of power gave us dark The school of spirit gave us light
Silence in the monastery, Studies in the academy Nurtured his mind The hills and air of Toledo His disciplined soul Alejandro Chafuen
|  Elora me genuit, Compluti Mystica cepi Romae et Letetiae dogmata, quae docui Sed fractus Caelo duro, atque labore, Toletum, Conscripsi Hesperiae tempora Prisca, redux, Pondera, de Rege & Scaena, de Morte, Jacobo Psacha, Egira, Nummis, inque libros Biblicos, Est Mariana Domus, Jesu inter Vita sodales Multiplicis Sophiae Cultus, amica Quies, An dabis exinctus tarda ut post fata quiescam Octo Novemque Deus quem fere Lustra premunt Juan de Mariana, verses about himself Translation appearing in Captain Stevens English version of Juan de Mariana's History of Spain Elbora gave me birth, Complutum fraught, My Mind with Sacred Knoweledge, which I taught At Rome and Paris, till th'inclement Air And broken Health constrained me to repair Back to Toledo, where I first Compos'd Spain's History, from ancient times disclos'd Weights, Coins, t'Hegira did my Pen engage, Kings, Death, St. James, the Paschal Feast, the Stage, And Books of Sacred Writ, my Dwelling wears The Virgins Holy Name, where free from Cares Among the Tribe of Jesus, in the Chase Of various Truths, I pass my quiet Days, Give me, good God! at length to sleep in Peace, Whom more than four score Years with weighty Age oppress |