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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Quod movet, quiescit.

PVlvis & vmbra sumus, describere numen Olympi Non opis est nostrae; pulvis & vmbra sumus. Pace tuâ liceat tamen, O Deus optime, de te Paucula vel blęso promere verba sono. Tu Rupes qui cuncta trahis, qui cuncta gubernas, Est tamen jntereà te penes alta quies: Nulla subit te cura, Pater, tamen omnia curas, Astra Solumquè moves, nec tibi motus inest.

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