Gratulationes d. Martino Aichmanno Schorndorffensi, viro virtute, & doctrina praestantissimo, cum utriusque iuris doctor in Tubingensi schola anno 1577. XI. die Februarii, publice crearetur

HELLER, most explored in all kinds of deeds:
To whom your other dear sister was led:
HELLER, a splendid man carried off to the ethereal shores,
Was killed by an unexpected death:
Thus your sister Schmidlappia was extinguished by the plague:
And no less did two relatives fall thus.
HELLER, who was a Councilor of Württemberg:
And the first glory of the Schmidlapp house.
Thus life is slippery, thus constant in no name:
We stand by the will, and we fall by the will, of GOD.
But why do I rouse the extinguished flames of sorrow?
We grieve in vain for those whom it is forbidden to recall.
Throw away sadness, and resume your former face:
Let there be no care and no pain on this festive day.
And just as you saw two disasters with a sad heart:
So now a different turn has joys.
For you are present as a Doctor: I congratulate you on the honor of the title:
And a just cause for congratulating is not lacking to me.
You have been known to me, clear Aichmann, for many years:
Hence I applaud your title with voice and meter.
And how he prepared such great honors for himself by reason:
Have this, candid Reader, so that you may know.
When Maximilian approached Pannonia Hungary with a soldier:
And the destruction of Gotha referring to the Grumbach's Feud was already near:
The black plague had driven us to flee to Esslingen,
And dear Tübingen took us fugitives into its bosom:
This Aichmann of ours, with the foundation of study laid,
Learned and the first seed in the fatherland's school:
He arrived at Esslingen, and having been received into our roll,
He was vexed, with the old custom commanding it.