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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus

Jacob Cats

Amor elegantiae, pater.

TRuncus iners aeruca jacet, vivumque cadaver: Vt tamen hanc Phoebi calfacit igne jubar, Apparet niveę mox papilionis imago, Et coeli, volucris jam nova, carpit iter. Barbarus excolitur, facies nitet altera rerum, Vt gelidum flammis cor tepefecit Amor. Ergo dioneae pectus rude trade magistrę, Et fieri si vis ingeniosus, ama.

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