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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Psalm. 11.9.

Averte oculos meos ne videant vanitatem.

QVi modo liber erat, victis leo servit ocellis: Quisquis es, a victo lumine, victus eris. Credite, peccati sunt lumina nostra fenestrę, Hâc & Avarities, & levis intrat Amor. Pande fores, subit hostis, & omnia cęde cruentat: Pande oculos, Satanas cordis in arce furit. Cura sit, ô, teneri tibi ne capiantur ocelli, Ni seruum vitijs subdere pectus ames.

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