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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.

What Christ does not receive, the exchequer seizes

Royal figure squeezing out a sponge. Figures being executed in the background.
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Exprimit humentes quas iam madefecerat antè
Spongiolas, cupidi Principis arcta manus.
Provehit ad summum fures, quos deinde cohercet,
Vertat ut in fiscum quae malè parta suum.[1]

The dripping sponges which he had previously filled with moisture the tight hand of a greedy prince is wringing out. He advances thieves to the top and then puts pressure on them, so that he may divert to his own treasury their ill-gotten gains.

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Ce qui nest a Christ, est au fisc.

Quand lesponge est pleine de humeurs,
Lon lestrainct pour luy faire rendre,
Comme il se faict a ces humeurs,
Quon trouve trop scavans a prandre,
Avant que ung larron gaigne a pendre
Il acquiert pour sa mort dresser,
Affin que sil y fault despendre,
Lon sen puisse recompenser.
Vel
Ainsi quant il y fault despendre,
Lon trouve a sen recompenser.

Notes:

1.  This is based on Suetonius, Life of the Deified Vespasian 16.

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In temerarios.

The reckless

Figure falling from a chariot which is being pulled through the sky by horses and carries the sun.
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Aspicis aurigam currus Phaëthonta[1] paterni
Ignivomos ausum flectere Solis equos.
Maxima qui postquàm terris incendia sparsit.
Est temere insesso lapsus ab axe miser.
Sic plaerique rotis fortunae ad sydera Reges
Evecti, ambitio quos iuvenilis agit,
Post magnam humani generis clademque suamque,
Cunctorum poenas denique dant scelerum.

You see here Phaethon, driving his father’s chariot, and daring to guide the fire-breathing steeds of the Sun. After spreading great conflagrations over the earth, the wretched boy fell from the car he had so rashly mounted. - Even so, the majority of kings are borne up to heaven on the wheels of Fortune, driven by youth’s ambition. After they have brought great disaster on the human race and themselves, they finally pay the penalty for all their crimes.

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Contre temeraires.

Phaeton trop fier pour son lignage,
Le Soleil conduire voulut:
Les chevaulx trop fors pour son aage,
Lont pugny de ce quil esleut.
Maint homme est, que mieulx luy valut,
Que en jeune aage eust moins eu richesse:
Car apres estat dissolut,
Il chet soubz le mal qui le presse.

Notes:

1.  Phaethon, the son of Apollo, the sun-god. The myth referred to here is told in Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.748 - 2.349. Both Phaethon and Icarus ([A39a053]) are types of those who aim too high and do not recognise their proper sphere.

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