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In detractores.
Against his detractors
EMBLEMA CLXIV.
Audent flagriferi matulae, stupidique magistri
Bilem in me impuri pectoris evomere.
Quid faciam? reddamne vices? sed nonne cicadam
Ala una obstreperam corripuisse[1] ferar?
Link to an image of this page [Xx2v p691]Quid prodest muscas operosis pellere[2] flabris?
Negligere est satius, perdere quod nequeas.
Those cane-wielding, empty-headed, thick-skulled teachers dare to spew out on me the bile of their foul minds. What am I to do? Return like for like? But surely I would then be said to have seized the dinning cicada by the wing. What is the good of driving flies away with tiresome swipes? It is better to ignore what you cannot get rid of.
1. cicadam / Ala una...corripuisse, ‘to have seized the...cicada by the wing’. See Erasmus, Adagia, 828 (Cicadam ala corripuisti): if you hold a cicada by the wing, it will only chirp more loudly.
2. muscas...pellere, ‘driving flies away’. See Erasmus, Adagia, 2660 (Muscas depellere): driving flies away is a waste of effort as they simply return.
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INIMITIE.
Contre les Detracteurs.
Trainebaletz, & sotz Maistre d’eschole
Osent sur moy vomir leur chaulde chole,
Que feray je? rendray je la pareille?
Prendre seroit la Cigale par l’aele.[1]
Car que vault il males mousches chasser?[2]
Ce q’uon [=qu’on]
ne peult abolir: fault laisser.
Cecy est escript d’affection indignée à locca
sion de quelque Maistre d’eschole, qui avoit
osé detracter de l’Alciat, dond se sentant irri
té luy si grand, par si peu & vil (comme il dict:)
sagement se abstient de respondre. Car le
jurisperit prise trop peu le Grammairien, ou
literateur humain.
1. ‘to have seized the...cicada by the wing’. See Erasmus, Adagia, 828 (Cicadam ala corripuisti): if you hold a cicada by the wing, it will only chirp more loudly.
2. ‘driving flies away’. See Erasmus, Adagia, 2660 (Muscas depellere): driving flies away is a waste of effort as they simply return.
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