Simonides Redivivus, or the Art of Memory and Oblivion (1610) - Page 22

SENNERTUS, the beam of the nourishing LEUCORIS likely a poetic reference to Wittenberg

Among the lights of the healers: such is

that SEBALDUS SMARIGUSUS,

Recalling in Teutonic speech

The praised benefits of MNENE a variant of Mnemosyne; not far

Tracing a kin from your own genius,

Beloved BRUXIUS, like a brother

Always celebrated by my Muses.

You follow these precursors closely,

Second to none, the glory of MNEMOSYNE

Showing with clever Tables,

And revealing with an easy method

The more abstruse riches of the art. Oh,

Skillful at opening the noble theater!

And showing all the equipment,

Carry it deeper into the inner sanctum.

Night hides nothing here; here nothing

Does the sun with flashing light hinder:

But the light is everywhere equal to the things,

And it teaches the places, and the figures,

Which are congruent for placing little words,

And apt to take on any forms whatsoever,

Which true, feigned, unknown, or known things

Supply from a rich horn.

With you as teacher, let the student enter

The venerable house, and following the Tables

Polished, let him fashion MNEMOSYNE

In his own brain.