[Ad praestantissimum venerandumque ducalem
consiliarium
D. mag. Odoricum Tridenti praepositum, uti
metuendum patrem
Ioannes Iacobus a Cruce de Mutina Italiae ciuitate
Clesii Ananiae vallis incola]
5Quae tibi nunc Cecini modico resonantia cantu,
Vir uenerande, precor, cernere metra uelis:
Me, licet ignotum, tua scribere fama coegit,
Me docuit laudes nuncius iste tuus,
Nobilis Hilprandus, tibi qui mea carmina defert
10Et tua qui solida nomina mente colit.
Pauca tibi scripsi, tua me Reuerentia noscat
Grataque sint oculis haec mea dicta tuis.
At mihi si uitam dederit pius ipse Redemptor
Saluatorque hominum, qui super astra sedet,
15Plura equidem referam; forsan magis atque iuuabit
Cernere te citharam, uir memorande, meam.
Rustica Musa licet, forsan tamen ipsa placebit:
Nil fictum resonant, sed mea uerba preces.
Interea ualeas: uitam tibi rector Olympi
20Felicem tribuat: sis memor, oro, mei.
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