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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Fumos vendit Amor.

AErio de rore trahunt alimenta Cicadae, Futilis aura tibi dat, Salamandra, cibum. Nautica plebs avido Tabaci bibit ore vaporem, Nostra, levi fumo, pectora nutrit Amor. Mira Puer Veneris vasto promittit hiatu: At si perspicias singula, fumus erit: Fumus amans, & fumus amor, mens fumus amicae est, Et speciem fumi, quidquid amamus, habet.

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