Full text: Correspondence of Descartes and Constantyn Huygens 1635 - 1647

Descartes’ Copy of [Oct.-Dec. 1539 
Summa manus quali prima fuit, fenlim amphora facdus 
Vrceus, atque ingens pagina fera liber. 
Nempe quod setates oculatas fugit et omnem 
Lyncea, ab Heinliad^e lumine lumen habet. 
Vltimus infanti, quantum nefciuerit a , orbi 
Indicium, fenio praecipitante, facit. 
Quantus qui, nodii facda vi, vefpere nigro 
Redderet Auroram, debuit efle liber! 
Chrifte, Creatori Domino cognate Creator, 
iEterno lux, seterne, coseua Patri, 
Manna merum, panis coeli, qui pane ftupendo 
Ora tot explefti pendula ab ore tuo: 
Ecce creatoris rurfus myfteria dextra 
Sentio, et hic prafens numen adoro tuum: | 
Auribus hic oculifque nouse miracula frugis 
Obiicis, et magno rurfum alimenta gregi. 
Scilicet et tenui, duce Te, iuccreuit arifta 
Pafcere par mundi fsecula iandta feges. 
Te duce, larta liet; fpreta multiplicis hydrae 
Moriibus invidia, Te duce, tedta liet: 
Te duce, qui rugiet vana et line dentibus ira, 
Nefciat hoc ungues in Daniele leo. 
Conllanter, 
Le S r de Saumaife Remarques de Monlieur de Zuy- 
au S r Riuet fur la fin lichem fur la lettre icy iointe. 
d’Ocdobre 1639. 
Monlieur, 
le n’auoy point 1 Pauoy bien moins preueu que 
preueu ce coup là, Monlieur Saumaife fe deuft amuler 
que Mons r de Zuyli- à combatre des poelies d’un tiers, 
4.1 creatoris] creatricis (ed. 1639.) — 44 et ] e 1639). 
a See below, p. 317, 1. 13a n.
	        
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