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Lucentes, mea vita, nec smaragdos,
beryllos neque, Flacce mi, nitentes
percandida margarita quaero
nec quos Tunnica lima perpolivit
anellos nec iaspios lapillos.

— Gaius Maecenas

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Quoted by Isidore, Etymologiae, XIX, 32, 6 (tr. ???)

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There's thunder even on the loftiest peaks.

I want no tomb; for Nature doth provide
For outcast bodies burial.

Fashion me with a palsied hand,
Weak of foot, and a cripple;
Build upon me a crook-backed hump;
Shake my teeth till they rattle;
All is well, if my life remains.
Save, oh, save it, I pray you,
Though I sit on the piercing cross!

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