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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Eccles. 32.

Qui quaerit legem replebitur ab eà, & qui insidiose agit scandalizabitur ab eâ.

PJscis dem genus huic alimenta benigna ministrat, Piscis idem genus huic causa doloris erit: Cur aliquis piscem pronuntiet esse malignum? Cum nocet, haud piscis, sed, coce, culpa tua est. Sancta Dei lex est, fert pagina sacra salutem, Quo pereat, tamen hinc lector iniquus habet. Libet apis violas, & aranea libet easdem; Hęc aconita trahit floribus, illa favos?

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