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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Fronti nulla fides.

PYramis, excelso dum vertice sidera pulsat, Spectanti saxo versicolore placet; Quam, procul attonito dum conspicit ore viator, Exteriora videns, interiora probat; Vt tamen accessit; quęritque vbi nocte quiescat, Nil praeter cineres hîc habitare videt. Ah quoties homines extrinseca sallit imago! Dignus eras regno, rex nisi Galba fores.

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