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A. Baratelle Laurei Patavini | ad invidum siquis fueritQuisquis es ad nostros aperis qui iurgia cantusDicendi speculare modum, speculare medullas,Corticis ingluviem placata mento sapores.Si minus hec facias, Elicon quo numine pectusMagnificet perquire tuum, te nosce profecto:Difficile est homini proprias bene noscere vires.At si Pallas alit te, Stilbons, Phebus et almePierides, spaciare sonis, spaciare solutaVoce placens, scelus est alienas rumpere laudes.Non Cato, non Cesar, quibus est sapientia materDetraxit sermone probis, nec lusit Homerus,Nec Maro concentu quevis preconia vatum.Est sat magnanimo proprios bene ducere sensusEt titulos; spoliare probris fastidit, iniquoOre loquax, turbam celebri virtute potentem.Marsia fit gurges si Phebo invexit, iambiInventor ruit ore tumax Misiusque poetaMopsopios ridens cecidit delusus Athenis.Nec decet antiquis vates conferre modernosSi libres in utrisque melon; censere, poetaQuis presens superet presentem, seminat iram.Sepe timens censet vel amans vel nescius artisVel livor secreta virum: stat in arte peritisIuditium verax, quos passio nulla refringit.Passio queque cadit cuivis post busta canentum;Carminibus miranda sacris sic laude pusillosTollimus et magnos ornata voce stupemus.Cautius est igitur placidis applaudere verbisAut turpes reticere notas: tibi consule, livor,Ne sis infamis vicians quoscumque canentes.