Prevod

(Let no one claim to be an author merely by adding a brief preface or a few notes to another’s book.) I read, I know not where, that in the language of herbs, Pellitory greeted Thyme and slyly said to him: "God keep you, Thyme: it pains me to behold you; for though more fragrant than all these other plants, 5 you scarcely rise half a span above the ground." He replied: "My dear, I may be small, but I grow without anyone’s help. It is you I pity; for all your airs, you cannot grow so much as half a span unless you lean against one of those walls." --When I see certain people sheltering in the shade of other writers and imagining themselves authors 12 merely by adding a few notes or writing a little preface, I am tempted to apply to them what Thyme said.