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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Qvid non sentit amor!

XLII.

Plat. lib. 6. de Leg. Vetus verbum est, Similitudinem amoris auctorem esse.

Cypr. Tract. de spons. cap. 7. EXperientiâ notum est arcanam quandam & occultam inter homines esse naturarum affinitatem aut odium, vel naturae quadam occultâ vi, vel astrorum influentiâ, vel, &c. Vnde fit vt aliquis ab altero toto pectore abhorreat, in alterum vero propensus sit, nec rogatus causam dicere posset cur hunc amet, illum oderit, juxta illud Catulli, Non amo te Volusi, nec possum dicere quare, hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.

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