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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Paulatim rima dehiscit.

QVod peponem riguo mihi crescere cernis in horto, Non est quod-velit hunc nostra culina cibum: Hîc ego, dum tener est, rorantia carmina sculpo; Et mihi cum viridi cortice crescit opus. Sit licet insulsus pepo ncs docet: imbibat infans Semina nequitiae, pessima messis erit. Ille, virum facinus patrare virile videbit, Jn puero vitium, qui puerile tulit.

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