He would say of a mother followed by her two daughters, _There is a dactyl_; of a father preceded by his two sons, _There is an anapaest_; and of a little child walking between its grandmother and grandfather, _There is an amphimacer_.

So much knowledge could only end in starvation.

The school of Salerno says, "Eat little and often." Ursus ate little and seldom, thus obeying one half the precept and disobeying the other; but this was the fault of the public, who did not always flock to him, and who did not often buy.
Ursus was wont to say: "The expectoration of a sentence is a relief.

The wolf is comforted by its howl, the sheep by its wool, the forest by its finch, woman by her love, and the philosopher by his epiphonema." Ursus at a pinch composed comedies, which, in recital, he all but acted; this helped to sell the drugs.

Among other works, he had composed an heroic pastoral in honour of Sir Hugh Middleton, who in 1608 brought a river to London.