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Vondelio
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inscription outside edge of plate: ON THE FIGURE OF / JOOST VAN DEN VONDEL. / This 's VONDEL, never enough however great it may be praised; / Time never deprived us of his Spirit, and the last being; / Reason bent less on the Foundress of his City / Than on the gift of that untarnished treasure: / The Tael glows through his pen with herelic splendour, / Grievous Euripides, hide yourself in the dark, / This German alone has adorned herself with greater splendour, / Our Netherlands never saw a more august poet. / What poet lived, or will live, or can live after this one / To pursue his revered fame and praise: / Oh, how lamentable it is, that his holy work / Shines more to glory for the false as well as the true Church. / PHILIP ZWEERTS. / Printed in Amsterdam by JOHANNES van SEPTEREN, Bookseller on the Leydse Straat. 1727. Inscriptions and textual elements: Agrippina parens ortum, pater Amstela sedem, / VONDELIO famam Belgica Musa dedit / Priscaque Relligi, custos et nuncia veri, / Pandit iter, IUSTUS quo petit astra senex / Prudenter.
Title: Vondelio
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inscription outside edge of plate: ON THE FIGURE OF / JOOST VAN DEN VONDEL.
/ This 's VONDEL, never enough however great it may be praised; / Time never deprived us of his Spirit, and the last being; / Reason bent less on the Foundress of his City / Than on the gift of that untarnished treasure: / The Tael glows through his pen with herelic splendour, / Grievous Euripides, hide yourself in the dark, / This German alone has adorned herself with greater splendour, / Our Netherlands never saw a more august poet.
/ What poet lived, or will live, or can live after this one / To pursue his revered fame and praise: / Oh, how lamentable it is, that his holy work / Shines more to glory for the false as well as the true Church.
/ PHILIP ZWEERTS.
/ Printed in Amsterdam by JOHANNES van SEPTEREN, Bookseller on the Leydse Straat.
1727.
Inscriptions and textual elements: Agrippina parens ortum, pater Amstela sedem, / VONDELIO famam Belgica Musa dedit / Priscaque Relligi, custos et nuncia veri, / Pandit iter, IUSTUS quo petit astra senex / Prudenter.