TO MONSIEUR DE CAULS

S If names possess within them some force and power
A Together with wisdom, yours was bestowed upon you,
L True knowledge produces it, from which your immortal renown
O Takes from the best Authors the honor from your birth:
M But if the spirit of the dead returns into another substance,
O Or slips in insensibly, with our reason,
N We shall think we see that of Solomon
D Freed from his body, taking up residence in yours:
E Being in your April, so filled with knowledge,
C Joining science with modesty:
A Having a mature spirit, in the spring of your life,
V An amiable sweetness, full of humble duty:
L The admirable Archimedes and Vitruvius live again
S Under your inventions, which follow them so closely.

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