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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Apud leves, gravitas vitium est.

SJmia saltatrix, & quę solet vsq́ue vagari, Non secus ac pestem te, domiporta, fugit. Lascivi iuvenes mores odêre modestos, Castaque vesanus respuit ora puer: Si qua puella loquax minus est, ea torva vocatur; Et pudor, heu! nomen rusticitatis habet. Stulte puer; petulans, audax, vaga, garrula virgo, Sit licet apta foro, non erit apta thoro.

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