Link to an image of this page [F4r f44r]Inanis impetus.
Antagonism that achieves nothing
Lunarem noctu, ut speculum,[1] canis inspicit orbem:
Seque videns, alium credit inesse canem,[2]
Et latrat: sed frustra agitur vox irritas ventis,
Et peragit cursus surda Diana suos.[3]
A dog at night is looking into the moon’s disk as into a mirror and seeing himself, thinks there is another dog there; and he barks - but the sound is carried away, ineffectual, on the winds. Diana, unhearing, pursues her course.
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El vano acometimiento.
TERCETOS.
La luna el perro de noche mirando
Vese (como de espejo en un asiento)
Y como à otro perro està ladrando.
Pero en vano sus bozes echa a’l viento,
Que la sorda Diana[1] no escuchando [M]
Continua su correr y movimiento.
[Marginalia - link to text]La Luna.
1. Diana is, of course, goddess of the moon.
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