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ENVIE.
Apodeixe.
Une femme est chair de serpent mangeant,
A qui les yeulx font mal, son coeur rongeant
Fort palle, & maigre. & d’espineuse poincte
Tient ung baston.
Telle est envie peincte.[1]
L’envieux s’entretient en son venimeux courage,
voit à regret le bien d’aultruy, se consume soy mes-
me, & bat aultruy de langue picquante.
1. This description is taken from Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.760ff., a depiction of the House of Envy.
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Philautia.
Self-satisfaction.
LXX [=71] .
Quòd nimium tua sorma [=forma]
tibi Narcisse placebat,
In florem, & noti est versa stuporis olus.[1]
Ingenii est marcor, cladesque philautia, doctos
Quae pessum plures datque deditque viros,
Qui veterum abiecta methodo, nova dogmata quaerunt
Nilque suas praeter tradere phantasias.
Because your beauty gave you too much satisfaction, Narcissus, it was turned both into a flower and into a plant of acknowledged insensibility. Self-satisfaction is the rot and destruction of the mind. Learned men in plenty it has ruined, and ruins still, men who cast off the method of teachers of old and aim to pass on new doctrines, nothing more than their own imaginings.
1. For the story of Narcissus, see Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.344ff. On the flower, see Pliny, Natural History, 21.75.128: “there are two kinds of narcissus... The leafy one ... makes the head thick and is called narcissus from narce (‘numbness’), not from the boy in the story.” (cf. ‘narcotic’).
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