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Pour celuy qui ne scait flater.
Veulx tu savoir, Pourquoy c’est que Thessaille
D’ung Duc, ą aultre, ainsi souvent tressaille?
(C’est qu’a flater elle n’ha point apprins ce,
Lequel vice est en toute court de Prince,
Mais comme un noble, & bon cheval, met bas
Son chevaucheur qui regir ne scait pas.)[1]
Point toutesfoys cruel ne soit le maistre,
Ung mors plus dur pour vengence doibt estre.
Les rebellions populaires viennent par
mauvaise administration des Princes.
1. See Plato, Politicus 261d for the image of the ruler as supervisor of a stud of horses.
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- sitting on an elevation [31A2352] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards (+ holding something) [31A2513(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ holding something) [31A2515(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- arm or hand held in front of the body - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something) [31AA2516(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- breaking to saddle, bridle, etc. ~ wild horses [34A21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ men's clothes) [41D211(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (+ men's clothes) [41D221(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman [46C131] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Princeps subditorum incolumitatem
procurans.
The Prince caring for the safety of his subjects
Titanii[1] quoties conturbant aequora fratres,
Tum miseros nautas anchora iacta iuvat.
Hanc pius erga homines Delphin[2] complectitur imis,
Tutiłs ut possit figier illa vadis.
Quąm decet haec memores gestare insignia Reges,
Anchora quod nautis, se populo esse suo.
Whenever the brothers of Titan race churn up the seas, then the dropped anchor aids the wretched sailors. The dolphin that cares for man wraps itself round the anchor so that it may grip more securely at the bottom of the sea. - How appropriate it is for kings to bear this symbol, mindful that what the anchor is to sailors, they are to their people.
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Prince procurant la saulvete
de ses subjectz.
Quand les ventz font effort sur Mer,
Moyennant lancre on rompt leurs cours:
Le Daulphin qui veult lhomme aymer,
Lembrasse pour donner secours.
Ceste figure en son discours,
Monstre, qung roy portant le sceptre,
Doibt estre au peuple tel recours,
Que Lancre aux mariniers scait estre.
1. ‘The brothers of Titan race’, i.e. the winds: Aurora, daughter of the Titan Hyperion, was the mother of the West, North and South winds. See Hesiod, Theogony 378-80.
2. The dolphin was supposed to guide the anchor to a good resting place. It was always friendly to man ([A39a011]). In general, see Erasmus, Adagia 1001, Festina lente.
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