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Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna
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And thus I humbly take my leaue, vntill that I may present your Honour,
with a matter more fitting the same.

_Your Honors deuoted,_

R. D.


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Anonymi elegia ad Lec-
_torem_.

Candide _Poliphilum_ narrantem somnia Lector
auscultes, summo somnia missa polo,
Non operam perdes, non hæc audisse pigebit,
tam varijs mirum rebus abundat opus.
Si grauis & tetricus contemnis erotica, rerum
nosce precor seriem tam bene dispositam.
Abnuis? ac saltem stylus & noua lingua novusq;
sermo grauis, sophia, se rogat aspicias.
Id quoq; sirenuis, geometrica cerne vetusta
plurima milliacis disce referta notis.
Hic sunt Pyramides, thermæ, ingentesq; Colossi,
ac Obeliscorum forma vetusta patet.
Hic diuersa basis fulget, variæque columnæ
illarumq; arcus, Zophora, epistilia,
Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coronæ
symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.
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