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Felix nimium prior ætas Contenta fidelibus aruis, Nec inerti perdita luxu: Nondum maris alta ſsecabat, Nec mercibus vndique lectis Noua littora viderat hoſspes. Vtinam modo nostra redirent In mores tempora priſscos.