The First Book of Logical Exercises by Andreas Libavius

Use the precepts, but be provident, and where he Ramus
Touches the truth more sparingly, do not fear to call it back.
For who is of such value, to whom it is right to have prostituted
The honor of freedom and the faith of what is right?
It is the custom for intellects to cut sayings too much,
And to bring forth just things in too short a sound.
You might detect this also in the Pallas of the craftsman RAMUS.
But he is neither greedy for wealth, nor wicked in envy.
Who then would forbid spreading the needy into ample
Recesses, and opening closed senses with a new light?
We owe the wide fields to you, Tremonian muse referring to the region of Dortmund or a specific local inspiration;
Nor is the fame and praise of other men any less.
We also are concerned, in our own station, to help youth
With counsel and work.
How much we struggle in this arena, as much as God adds?
O, if only those services might be useful,
And show youth decorative with a skillful mind,
So that a thousand advantages might come to the ancestral ridges.
If I am not able to pour out waves through vast channels:
Let it be enough to bring forth a little from a small mouth
Which waters the tender tongues with a meager sprinkling,
And might be able to lift the logical thirst with dew.
O studious offspring of the Castriadae the sisters, i.e., the Muses,
Take these words remembering them, and hold them fixed in your mind.
Do not obey anyone whom a vain lust moves
To have snatched this work from your fingers.
Let others extol the documents of the great Philip Melanchthon,
Whom, however, no faith finishes as being entirely unharmed.