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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Aude aliquid.

ESca quidem placeat, sed te metus arcet ab escâ, Nempe latent blandis vincla propinqua cibis: Quid te vincla fugant? quid carceris impedit horror? Quem labor absterrent, pręmia nulla manent. Grana latent paleis, dura nuce nucleus haeret; Et rosa tangenti pungit acuta manum. Qui facinus forti memorabile pectore versat, Audeat, ille nihil, qui nihil audet, habet.

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