[All]: Lat. parallel: (III, Praefatio) Hoc quicumque voles carmen cognoscere lector / cum praecepta ferat, quae sunt gratissima vitae / commoda multa feres, sin autem spreveris illud, / non me scriptorem, sed te neglexeris ipse ‘Any reader who wishes to know this poem, since it brings precepts which are most applicable to life; you carry many useful things, but if you scorn it, you are not neglecting me, the author, but yourself’. The inclusion of an Icel. version of the prefaces to Books III-IV here is probably to supply an appropriate conclusion to the poem. The Lat. disticha end with IV, 49: Miraris verbis nudis me scribere versus; / hoc brevitas fecit, sensu coniungere binos ‘You marvel that I write these verses in bare words; this brevity brings about, to join in one thought two (lines)’.