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Non te maximum saeculi malum, impudicitia, in
numerum plurium adduxit ; non gemmae te, non
margaritae flexerunt ; non tibi divitiae velut maximum generis humani bonum refulserunt; non te,
bene in antiqua et severa institutam domo, periculosa
etiam probis peiorum detorsit imitatio ; numquam te
fecunditatis tuae, quasi exprobraret aetatem, puduit,
[p. 472]
numquam more aliarum, quibus omnis commendatio
ex forma petitur, tumescentem uterum abscondisti
quasi indecens onus, nec intra viscera tua conceptas
spes liberorum elisisti; non faciem coloribus ac lenociniis polluisti;
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