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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philologie, Sprachwissenschaften LH 5, 4, 3
# Folio 20v, page id 00068745:0040
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Et si possem aliquid victori serta pararem.
Et potero, si fata favent: jungemur amici,
Turba tui cultrix, Musarum percita amore
Et quod Balsacius potuit, statuemus honores:
qui te digna canet, vel qui virtutibus altis
Dicendo accedet, licet eminus; ille coronam
Auferet, immensumque tibi comes ibit in aevum
Haec meditabar ego, duleique cupidine captus
Grata velut coeptae fingebam somnia pugnae:
Cum me his immersum rapidi cenosulminis ictus
Excitat et placidam rumpit fragor ipse quietem
Dum circumspicio, passim rorantia cerno
Ora virum lacrymis: nec me praesaga mali mens
Quaerere passa diu: Princepemeus occidit eheu.
Johannes Fridericus honos et gloria Guelfum
Occidit exclamo: visa est vertigine tellus
Acta mihi, pl subitisque dies obducta tenebris.
Tandem ubi mens iterum sibi reddita, quaero quis orbi
sensus et a tanto capio solatia luctu
Da Veniam Fernande in talit turbine moptim
Rectra fidesque cadunt manibus abruptaque pendent
Carmina, ferali mutaris haure cupresso.
Non ego crudeles testabor nomine Parcas
invidiamve Deum: frustra incusamus Olympum.
Crimina nostra magis tristes poscentia poenas
lerc decet, quando ancipiti discrimine rerum
Luminibus tanti Germania principis orba
Nescio quid misera iratis expectat ab astris
Ille quidem ingenio et caris virtutibus heros
Improba pacificis Molimina reppulit armis,
illius imperio gaudens pater ipse isurgis
ibat, et aurata fundebat flumen ab urna:
Nec min