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People eating and drinking before a tapestry.
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People eating and drinking before a tapestry.

Abraham Bosse

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Lettering: Lettering continues: "Que le goust sans l'excez a d'honnestes appas!/ Que nature se plaist aux choses raisonnables!/ Et qu'elle monstre bien que le luxe des tables/ Nous fait mourir de fain au milieu du repas!" Gustus. Le goust. In terris quicquid sudat, quod defluit astris/ Quicquid in æquoreis velificatur aquis;/ Irrequieta mihi sine fine hæc cuncta laborant/ Jure igitur sensum rex, hominumque vocor. A. Bosse in et fe. ...

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