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Letter #3025

UNKNOWN to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1546/1547, after 1546-09-25]


Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 1598, p. 607-608

 

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[R]everendissimo in [Christo] Patri et Domi[no] [Do]mino Ioanni [Dei][gra]tia episcopo [Warmie]nsi, Moece[nati] [suo] summo

Salutem.

Maecenas, doctis decus et fons inclite Musis
En iterum incomptos versus adesse vides.
Da veniam quaeso: puduit dimittere servum
Absque meo vacuum carmine. Nonne probas?
Nam licet ingenium friget tamen ipsa voluntas
Prompta sit officii docte patrone loco.
Destituunt vires linguam roburque fathiscit,
Integer est animus, qui puta cuncta volat
Qui vix Nasoni quo non facundior alter
Cesserit ingenio si id quoque fata velint
Aldina fuerat clarus qui in arte Vietor
Excessit vivis pi{n}gnora cuncta simul
Musophilos inter Lares habitoque priores
Mittit Maecenas hinc tibi Musa vale.

Amplitudinis Celsit[udin]isq[ue] tuae ...