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Spes proxima.
Hope at hand
XXXIIII.
Innumeris agitur respublica nostra procellis,
Et spes venturae sola salutis adest:
Non secus ac navis medio circùm aequore venti
Quam rapiunt, salsis iamque fatiscit aquis.
Quòd si Helenae adveniant lucentia sydera fratres,[1]
Amissos animos spes bona restituit.
Our country is battered by many a storm, and hope of future safety is all that we have. It is like a ship far out at sea, driven along by the tempest and already gaping open to the salty waters. Yet if the brothers of Helen, the shining stars, appear, then good hope revives the company’s lost courage.
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Nehiste hoffnung.
XXXIIII.
Mayland unser haymet, und stat
Drengt vil ungluck, bschwer, not und plag,
Und doch hoffnung zu peßerm hat:
Gleych wie ain schif das sich kaum mag
Erretten vor der wellen schlag,
Erscheinn im die zwen liechten sternn
Helenae brueder, alle klag
Sich einnd, und ist das hayl nit fernn.
1. ‘The brothers of Helen’, i.e. the stars Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, protectors of sailors.
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Non tibi, sed religioni.
Not for you but for religion
XXXV.
Isidis effigiem tardus gestabat asellus,
Pando verenda dorso habens mysteria.
Obvius ergo Deam quisquis reverenter adorat,
Piasque genibus concipit flexis preces.
Ast asinus tantum praestari credit honorem
Sibi, & intumescit admodùm superbiens,
Donec eum flagris compescens dixit agaso,
Non es Deus tu aselle, sed Deum vehis.[1]
An ass with dragging feet was carrying an image of Isis, bearing reverend mysteries on its sagging back. So all who met him reverently offered worship to the goddess and recited pious prayers on bended knee. The ass however took it that all this honour was offered to himself, and began to swagger along swollen with pride - until his driver, reducing him with blows, said, ‘You are not god, my little ass, you are carrying god’.
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Nit dier, sonder der geystlicheyt.
XXXV.
Ein Esel trueg eins haylgen bild,
Vor dem sich nayget yederman,
Des ward der Esel stoltz und wild,
Maint im selbs wurd die ehr gethan,
O schelm, ich solt dich leren gan,
Sein maister sagt, und schlagen vol:
Nit dich, den haylgen bett man an,
Ein unglert pfaff verstet es wol.
1. See Aesop, Fables 266; Erasmus, Adagia 1104, Asinus portans mysteria.
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