
LA FEMME OMBRE DE L’HOMME.
Au clair Soleil noire Ombre le corps fuyt
Quand il la suyct. Quand il fuyt elle suyct.
Telle nature, es amoreuses flammes
Ont ces tant vains simulachres des femmes.
Car leurs amans fuyent: qui les poursuyvent.
Et ceux lesquelz les fuyent: elles suyvent.
Car bien souvent, en evidence claire,
L’homme faict l’un, elle faict le contraire,
L’homme ne veult: & l’ors elle demande.
Et contraire est à cela qu’il commande.
Ainsi Daphné Fuit Phebus la fuyvant [=suivant]
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Ainsi Echo suyct Narcis la fuyant.
Parquoy l’on dict, & à bon droict on nomme
La femme ainsi estre l’ombre de l’homme.
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