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Ipse canenda geris, Laurens, nos gesta canemus;
Hei mihi, sed nostro est parvus in ore sonus!
Exsuperat teneras, Medicos, tua gloria vires,
Nostraque materiam carmine musa premit.
5At tenerae crescent vires crescentibus annis,
Exiguusque meo crescet in ore sonus.
Tum liceat nomen fama tibi ferre per aevum
Et tua non humili gesta sonare tuba.
Tu tantum Andronicum serves! O quantus ab illo
10Spiritus in nostri pectoris ima venit!
O quos ille tibi gignit nutritque poetas,
Dum tonat argolicis troica bella modis!
Iam tibi Aristotelem vertit, penitusque retrusas
Naturae arcano concinit ore vices.
15Unica materies illi es, spes unica solus;
Una illi vitam tu dare voce potes.
Parva petit, dare magna soles; da parva penitenti:
Parva tamen nescis si dare, magna date.
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