On the Wonderful Cryptography

of Gustavus Selenus.

Who said that through all the lands, through the deep

heavens, and through the tracts of water, God

goes and with soul Divine each animal informs,

had a mind sagacious, as well as genius. 

This in thee is notably apparent, Selenus full of lore,

    who makest tongues that the living do resemble.

Thus does Antiquity, by new devices pushed aside, give way;

thus are all things for the Duke his greatest care. 

O happy mortal, to whom from lofty heaven Jupiter has granted,

so much of his mind to have.

In joy and dutifulness,

have I hastily composed,

Elias Ehinger.

On the Cryptographics

of Gustavus Selenus

An Epigram.

 In such an age of faithlessness, and in such a rabble of
       wicked souls, in which, alas! our times abound,  a wise
man with reason hides the secrets of his heart, nor does
       he lightly chatter what he sees should be kept secret.
For it is a thing divine, for one to hide one’s affairs in
          silence and to impress the chaste seals on one’s lips. 
But since this life would have no faithful friends, and such a life
       would hardly be a thing to be desired by man, there has been