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Contra los vanos principes.

Ottava rhima.

Ves à Phaeton[1] como hecho carretero
Para regir el carro hecho de fuego  [M]
Como des que abrasò aàel mundo entero
Cayò d’el exe enque subiò de çiego.
D’esta manera à los que el plaçentero
Mundo subiò à rreynar, subidos luego
Con la Fortuna sus reynos destruyen,
Despues, ò caen, ò mueren, ò alfin huyen.

[Marginalia - link to text]El carro d’el Sol.

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 ([A49a053]) are types of those who aim too high and do not recognise their proper sphere.


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