Pontanus

Pontanus in an excellent poem, sometimes tutor to Alphonsus junior,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Pontanus, Antonio Dial, brings in some laughing at an old man, that by reason of his age was a little fond, but as he admonisheth there, Ne mireris mi hospes de hoc sene, marvel not at him only, for tota haec civitas delirium, all our town dotes in like sort, [215] we are a company of fools.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[220] Supputius in Pontanus had travelled all over Europe to confer with a wise man, he returned at last without his errand, and could find none.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Astrologers make the stars a cause or sign of this bitter passion, and out of every man's horoscope will give a probable conjecture whether he will be jealous or no, and at what time, by direction of the significators to their several promissors: their aphorisms are to be read in Albubater, Pontanus, Schoner, Junctine,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Pontanus, and [2180] Galateus, and every good man's.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And this kinde of earth-quake is most clearkely described by Pontanus in these verses:

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

And Pontanus writeth very learnedly concerning the Baian Baths.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

And Pontanus writeth very learnedly concerning the Baian Baths.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And this kinde of earth-quake is most clearkely described by Pontanus in these verses:

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

A certain latinisator, dwelling near the hospital, said since, producing the authority of one Taponnus, — I lie, it was one Pontanus the secular poet, — who wished those bells had been made of feathers, and the clapper of a foxtail, to the end they might have begot a chronicle in the bowels of his brain, when he was about the composing of his carminiformal lines.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002