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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Magistra virtutis, disciplina.

SI foret in silvis per devia rura vagatus, Nec caveâ viridis clausa fuisset avis; Non, regum conviva dapes, non ore falernum Gustet, & aurato non recubet thalamo: Nec lepidos daret ore sonos, nec amabile murmur, Nec domino posset dicere, Cęsar ave. Fraena det ingenio, juvenilibus imperet annis Optati ingreditur quisquis honoris iter.

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