
Que por pequeño que sea el amor da gran
pena. De Theochrito.[1]
RHIMA MEDIA.
La dulce miel el tierno Amor cogiendo
En el dedo mordiendo:le una abeja
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El aguijon le dexa: y el cuytado
Sopla su dedo inchado: y pateando
La tierra, està mostrando: la picada
A Venus, que enojada: mire quales
Herydas tan mortales: le ha causado
Aquel tan laçerado: animalejo.
La Venus con consejo: sonriendo
Acallale diciendo: Mi hijo calla,
Que no puedes culpalla: pues tu imitas
A aquestas aveçitas: que aun chiquito
Das de dolor heridas infinito.
1. 3rd-century BC bucolic poet, who may or may not have written the Idylls (19, The Honey Stealer), on which this is based.
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ELOQUENTIA FORTITU-
dine praestantior.[1]
Eloquence superior to strength
Arcum leva tenet, rigidam fert dextera clavam,
Contegit & Nemees corpora nuda leo.
Herculis haec igitur facies? non convenit illud,
Quòd vetus & senio tempora cana gerit.
Quid quod lingua illi levibus traiecta cathenis,
Quîs fissa facili allicit aure viros.
Link to an image of this page [E6v]An ne quod Alcyden lingua non robore Galli,
Praestantem populis iura dedisse ferunt.
Cedunt arma togae,[2] & quamvis durissima corda,
Eloquio pollens ad sua vota trahit.
His left hand holds a bow, his right hand a stout club, the lion of Nemea clothes his bare body. So this is a figure of Hercules. But he is old and his temples grizzled with age - that does not fit. What of the fact that his tongue has light chains passing through it, by which he draws men along with ready ears pierced? The reason is surely that the Gauls say that Alceus’ descendant excelled in eloquence rather than might and gave laws to the nations. - Weapons yield to the arts of peace, and even the hardest of hearts the skilled speaker can lead where he will.
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