With gay descriptions sprinkle here and there Some grave instructive sentences with care, That touch on life, some moral good pursue, And give us vir… - Marco Girolamo Vida

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With gay descriptions sprinkle here and there
Some grave instructive sentences with care,
That touch on life, some moral good pursue,
And give us virtue in a transient view;
Rules, which the future sire may make his own,
And point the golden precepts to his son.