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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Peruia virtuti, sed vilibus invia.

ESt similis nostro, quem texit araneus, orbis; Plurimaque humanae conditionis habet: Hîc nocturna culex, obscoenaque musca pependit, Vtraque ridendo compede nexa pedes. Posteritas crabo acris equi, virtutis avitę Conscius, incursu debile soluit opus: Carpite iter caeli, quibus est cęlestis origo, Hęc plaga, nil pręter vilia monstra tenet.

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