Yet these are wishes only — experience proves the labor dies like water poured away
And yet these are only wishes — wishes, nothing more — and so have been all the study, speech, and labor spent on that end till now.
Sad experience has shown that the work carries empty wind up to the airy clouds, and dies badly — like the old saying about three kinds of water: the stream that runs into the sea, the water mixed into wine, and the water poured on a Jew for Christian baptism.
Latin
QUANQUAM sunt haec quaedam vota, sed vota tantùm, omniaque hactenus eam in rem studia, dicta, factaque. Ventos irrita ferre ad nebulas aërias, ac malè perire, tristis experientia comprobavit: Quod de triplici aquarum genere dictum, qualis quae influit in mare, quae Vino affusa, aut quae in Judaeum effusa tingendum Christiano ritu.