[Ad Varchium suum]
Varchi divinos inter memorande poetas,
Cui numeris etiam libera Musa favet,
Quid me carminibus summorum laudibus aequas,
5De te unquam bene nil, nec de alio meritum?
At monita haec isto pro iudicio esse relata,
Malo tibi quando nil aliud vales,
Quem immemorem ingratumve hominem me forte videri,
Quo a vitio penitus vita aliena mea est.
10Postquam sublime ingenium tibi contigit esse,
Dignam sume illo tu quoque materiam.
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