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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Ne qvid nimis.

PAN, satis est, modico caleat si corpus ab igne, Quid, miser! in flammas & tua damna ruis? Omnis amor vehemens, malus est; nimis Vxor amari, Et Puer, & Genetrix; & Pater ipse, potest. Omnis in alterius (procul hinc praetextus Amici) Jn propriâ nimius Coniuge sordet Amor. Ni modus, & ratio iuvenilibus imperet ausis, Quisquis es, in propriâ Coniuge moechus eris.

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