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Particulx aggdlre > ut coalelcant corpus in unum ,
Difficile e ft, nifi conflentur, lymphavc madcfcant ,
Exhalans porro qure vero glutine jungat;
V itra unde, & folidi lateres confidere poffint:
820
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Marmora vix valeant nimium nimiumque propinquo
Acceffuque premi inter fe , amplexuque tene ri;
Ncc non & liquefadla fuper vix incidit rera
Gutta inimica undre, fubito frafla omnia circum
825
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M iiceri nequeant, nec proinde madefeere , quidquid
Unftum oleo e ft, olei aut natura po lie t, uti p ix ,
Ut mollis ce ra , & qure cretcra pinguia multa
830
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