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IN MOMENTANEAM
foelicitatem.

Transitory success

Gourd growing beside a pine tree
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Aėriam propter crevisse cucurbita pinum
Dicitur, & grandi luxuriasse coma
Cum ramos complexa, ipsumque egressa cacumen
Se praestare aliis credidit arboribus.
Cui pinus, nimium brevis est haec gloria, nam te
Protinus adveniet, quae male perdat[1] hyems.

A gourd, it is said, grew beside a lofty pine and flourished with abundant foliage. When it had enveloped the branches and grown taller than the tree-top, it then thought itself superior to the other trees. The pine said to it: This glory is exceedingly brief. For winter will shortly come which will utterly destroy you.

Notes:

1.  Textual variant: perdet.

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In momentaneam felicitatem.

Transitory success

LXVIII.

Gourd growing round a pine tree
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Aėriam propter crevisse Cucurbita pinum
Dicitur, & grandi luxuriasse coma.
Cłm ramos complexa, ipsumque egressa cacumen,
Se praestare aliis credidit arboribus.
Cui pinus, nimium brevis est haec gloria: nam te
Protinłs adveniet quae malč perdat[1] hyems.

A gourd, it is said, grew beside a lofty pine and flourished with abundant foliage. When it had enveloped the branches and grown taller than the tree-top, it then thought itself superior to the other trees. The pine said to it: This glory is exceedingly brief. For winter will shortly come which will utterly destroy you.

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Von kurtzwirigem gluck.

LXVIII.

Es wuechß bey einer Feychten hoch
Ein Curbis gar in kurtzer zeyt
So vast, das er sy uberkroch,
Acht sich des gar stoltz und gmeyd,
Als wer sein gleich nit nah und weyt:
Sagt im die Feycht, nun harr und peyt,
Schier kumbt des kalten windter schneyd,
Nimbt dier allen deinn stoltz und freyd.

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1.  Textual variant: ‘perdet’.

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