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IN FACILE A VIRTUTE
desciscentes.
Easily deflected from the right course
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Parva velut limax remora spreto[1] impeti venti,
Remorumque ratem sistere sola potest.
Si [=Sic]
quosdam ingenio & virtute ad sydera vectos,
Detinet in medio tramite causa levis.
Anxia lis veluti est, vel qui meretricius ardor,
Egregiis iuvenes sevocat à studiis.[2]
Just as the little slug, the remora, scorning the impetus of wind and oars, can by itself stop a ship from moving, so some trivial reason holds back in mid-course people who through intellect and ability are on their way to the stars: for example, a worrying law-suit, or that desire for whores which entices young men away from their good studies.
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Le sens plus requis que beaulté.
XLVIII.
Une teste faicte de marbre,
Fut un jour du Renard trouvee
En passant par dessous un arbre:
Laquelle il eut tantost levee,
Voicy teste bien
achevee,
Dit-il, & d’un art moult nouveau:
Mais elle est en un poinct grevee,
Car elle n’a point de cerveau.[1]
commentaires.
Le renard (animal qui surpasse tous les autres en
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finesse & en cautelle) estant entré en la boutique d’un
sculpteur, y trouva une teste d’homme fort bien &
artificiellement faicte, & si naifvement gravee &
polie, que rien ne luy defailloit que l’ame. Tenant donc
entre ses pattes ceste teste, il se print à dire, O que ce-
ste teste est belle & delectable à voir: mais elle n’a
point d’entendement. Il se treuve une fable d’Esope
toute semblable à ceste embleme. Cecy nous enseigne
que c’est peu de chose d’avoir le corps beau & bien
formé, s’il n’est accompagné des biens de
l’ame. Il est
donc meilleur d’estre laid & difforme, moyennant
qu’on soit sage & prudent: que d’estre beau & mi-
gnard de corps, & n’avoir esprit ny entendement.
1. See Phaedrus, Fables 1.7 (also in iambic senarii); Aesop, Fables 43.
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