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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Impius, & in libertate, seruus est.

IMpia quę proprio mens pondere pressa laboras, Quò fugit in nullâ pes tibi fixus humo? Nil fuga profuerit, nam quod fugis, instat eunti: Impia perpetuus mens sibi carcer adest. Cui corpus, cui corda regit malèsuada cupido, Colla licet, jactet libera, seruus erit. Nil juvat, heu! latebras animo quaes îsse nocenti, Hunc, licet effugiat carcere, carcer habet.

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