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Theatrum stultorum

Jan Leenheer

Emblema. Anseres avolantes à villa: quidam Peregrini, in cuculla Fatui. Coelum non animum mutant.Horat.AEDe procul patriâ discedit saepiùs Anser Improbus, exultans alienos visere Soles. Nec tamen inde redit solito facundior; Anser Permanet, utque solet, resonos strepit inter olores. Quid juvat ad gentes varias, populosq́ue remotos,

Ad Libyen, Solymos, ultrà Garamantas, & Indos Currere, Pyramides lustrare, & Regna Canopi Visere, si mores, si nîl laudabile prorsùs Addiscas, si prava tibi mens semper adhaeret? O gens stulta nimis! gens nostro digna Theatro! Si sapias, natale solum ne desere; Coelum Non animum mutant Fatui, qui trans mare currunt.

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