If true that notion, which but few contest,
That, in the way of wit, short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For ’tis their glory to be short, and sweet.
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If true that notion, which but few contest,
That, in the way of wit, short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For ’tis their glory to be short, and sweet.
“Et huiusmodi stantiae usus est fere in omnibus cantionibus suis
Arnaldus Danielis et nos eum secuti sumus.”
Dante | De Vulgari Eloquio, II. 10