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sei di speranza fontana vivace.

Donna, sei tanto grande e tanto vali,

che qual vuol grazia ed a te non ricorre,

sua desianza vuol volar senza ali.

La tua benignità non pur socorre

a chi domanda, ma spesse fiate

liberamente al domandar precorre.

In te misericordia, in te pietate,

in te magnificenza; in te s’aduna,

quantunque in creatura è di bontate.

Then follows the supplicatiosupplicatio, the petition for help in a particular emergency.

This scheme corresponds exactly to the form described by NordenNorden, E.. It occurs in Greek poetry; many examples are found in Latin literature. There are some other forms of the eulogy besides the tu anaphoraAnaphertu-Anapher; one of the most widespread is the eulogy with relative clauses which, too, has been analysed in Norden’s book. Both forms are combined in one of the earliest and most beautiful Latin eulogies we possess, the prooemium of Lucretius’ De rerum natura:

Aeneadum genitrix, hominum divomque voluptas,

Alma Venus! caeli subter labentia signa