
In receptatores sicariorum.[1]
Those who harbour cut-throats
Latronum furumque manus tibi Scaeva[2] per urbem
It comis [=comes]
, & diris cincta cohors gladiis.
Atque ita te mentis generosum prodige cènses,
Quòd tua complureis allicit olla malos.
En novus Actaeon, qui postquàm cornua sumpsit,
In praedam canibus se dedit ipse suis.[3]
An evil-minded band of ruffians and thieves accompanies you about the city, a gang of supporters armed with lethal swords. And so, you wastrel, you consider yourself a fine lordly fellow because your cooking pot draws in crowds of scoundrels. - Here’s a fresh Actaeon - he, after he grew his horns, became the prey of his own hunting dogs.

Receptateurs dhomicides.
Gens apres toy avec espees,
(Dont plusieurs ont gaigne le pendre,
Ou davoir oreilles coppees)
Te font cornes au chef extendre,
Mais il ten pourra ainsi prandre,
En nourrissant telz ruffiens,
Que a Acteon: qui (faict cerf tendre)
Fust devore de tous ces chiens.
1. Before the 1536 edition, Wechel editions used an earlier version of the woodcut in which the horns were more like a goat than a deer’s antlers.
2. Scaeva, ‘evil-minded’. The capital letter suggests that the Latin word could be taken as a proper name in the vocative case, i.e addressing one Scaeva.
3. For the story of Actaeon turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138ff. Similarly, the hangers-on will destroy the one who has fed them.
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Eloquence vaut mieux que
force.[1]
XCIII.
L’arc en la main, en l’autre la massue,
Peau de Lyon estant cy apperceuë,
Pour Hercules me fait ce vieillard croire:
Mais ce qu’il a marqué de si grand’, gloire,
Que mener gents enchainés à sa langue,
Entendre veut, qu’il fit tant bien harangue,
Que les François, pour ses dits de merveilles,

Furent ainsi que pris par les oreilles.
Si donc il a par loix & ordonnances
Rangé les gents, plustost que par vaillances,
Dira lon pas (comme c’est verité)
Que l’espee a lieu aux livres quitté?
Et qu’un dur coeur par sages mieux se range,
Que gros effort son aspresté ne change?
Pource Hercules n’usa pas de grand’ force:
Et si chacun de le suyvre s’efforce.
commentaires.
Il descrit icy un
homme, qui en sa senestre a son arc,
& en sa dextre sa masse ferree, & une peau de Lion
pour toute couverture. C’est donc icy
l’effigie d’Her-
cules. Mais ses cheveux blancs, ny ces
chainettes, qui
sont attachees à sa langue
d’un costé, & de l’autre
sont attachees aux oreilles de
plusieurs personnes: celà,
dis-je, ne s’accorde pas à la forme qu’on peint
coustu-
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mierement Hercules. Ces cheveux blancs, & ces chai-
nettes signifient, qu’Hercules, de quelques grands for-
ces qu’il fust doué, ne mit pas sous sa puissance tant
de peuples farouches, comme feroit un jeune homme,
par sa force & par ses armes, mais bien les dompta-il
par sa singuliere eloquence, & par son insigne pru-
dence, qui accompagne ordinairement les vieillards
& experimentés. Les armes souvent quittent la place
à la longue robbe: & bien souvent les
plus fascheuses
guerres sont appaisees & esteinctes par un beau par-
ler, & par un docte discours. La longue robbe est
souvent prise pour la paix, comme aussi c’estoit l’ha-
bit ordinaire des Rommains lors qu’ils n’avoyent
point de guerre.
1. This epigram is closely based on Lucian’s essay, The Gallic Hercules.
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