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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Stultitiam patiuntur opes.

QVae nigris ęruca diu fuit obsita pannis, Ecce! novę formam papilionis habet: Qiu prandebat olus vili modò vermis in horto, Atria nunc regum per laqueata volat; Jnfestatque dapes, funaliaque ipsa lacescit, Jnque togis procerum sordida blatta cubat. Ex humili fortuna jocans quem tollit in altum, Omnibus elatâ fronte molestus abit.

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