
De la belle qui mourut.[1]
LXVI.
Mort pourquoy es tu tant hardie,
De l’enfant amoureux reprendre?
Il faut que pour luy je te die,
Que tort fais à son aage tendre:
Si cuidant son plaisant arc tendre,
Il a tes noirs traicts transjectés,
C’est par toy, qui l’as sceu suprendre,
Luy machinant outrages tels.
Encor sur la mesme histoire.
Pourquoy bats tu, Mort, l’enfant amoureux,
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S’il fait mourir en cuidant faire aimer?
Ren luy sa flesche, & prens ton dard amer:
Lors fera-il exploit moins dangereux.
commentaires.
Mort, pleine d’envie, avoit trompé le mignard
Cupidon: car, comme il dormoit, elle luy avoit pris ses
flesches dorees, & en leur place avoit mis les siennes
mortiferes. Cupidon, ne
s’appercevant de la trompe-
rie, tire une flesche à une jeune fille, laquelle, se sen-
tant mourir, s’ecrie, & tanse rigoureusement la
Mort. O Mort injuste, dit-elle, pourquoy as-tu trom-
pé l’enfant Amour, qui m’a ainsi cruellement trans-
percé avec tes flesches,
qu’il cuidoit estre les siennes?
Ainsi advient-il souvent, que la mauvaise fortune
trompe la bonne, & la surmonte.
1. The iconography of the emblems ‘De morte et amore’ (previous emblem) and ‘In formosam fato praereptam’ is confused in many editions.
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