AD IOHANNEM

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   Hagi prime ſodalium meorum,

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   Qui, dum nos aleret nouem dearum

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   Tuto Lanus in otio, ſolebas

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   Mecum carpere ſæpe non inertem

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   Fultus ceſpite florido quietem:

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   Qua purum ſalices, utraque ripa,

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   Frondoſis fluuium comis opacant.

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   Quid, dum bella tument nephanda, rerum

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   In Martis geris urbe? me niuali

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    Longo tempore detinet ſub Arcto

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    Fati ſæua neceßitas acerbi.

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    Hic tabeſco tot anxijs pereſus

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    Curis (hei) ſine te, miſerq; uiuo

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    Inter tela licentiamq; ferri

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    Diuiſus procul a meis libellis.

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    Et nunc uel ſitus hos araneoſus

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    Fœdat, nunc tineas alunt edaces

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    Noſtræ delitiæ, uel aſper igni

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    Miles tradidit, hoc fleam neceſſe eſt.

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    Hagi prime ſodalium meorum.

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   Hagius, foremost of my comrades,

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   You who, while the Lahn nourished us in the safe leisure

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   Of the nine goddesses, used to

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   Often enjoy with me a not-inactive rest,

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   Leaning upon the flowery turf:

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   Where willows, on either bank,

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   Shade the pure river with their leafy foliage.

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   What are you doing in the city of Mars,

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   While unspeakable wars swell? Me, under the snowy

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    North for a long time detains

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    The cruel necessity of bitter fate.

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    Here I waste away, consumed by so many anxious

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    Cares (alas) without you, and I live wretchedly

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    Amidst weapons and the license of the sword,

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    Separated far from my little books.

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    And now either a spider-webbed mold

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    Defiles them, now our delights feed greedy

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    Moths, or a harsh soldier has handed them over

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    To the fire; I must weep for this.

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    Hagius, foremost of my comrades.