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Contre les riches au dommage public.
Qui en l’eau clere anguilles veut pescher,
De perdre temps il se veut empecher:
Mais s’il la trouble, il emplira ses rhetz.
Ainsi aucuns par les loix reserrez
En temps de paix qui n’ont un rouge double,
Riches se font en un publicque trouble.[1]
Il n’est que de pescher en eau trouble. (Di-
sent les gros larrons, que l’on ne pend pas) Par-
quoy ilz troublent la paix, &
tranquillité des
Princes, & du peuple, pour mieulx piller, &
mieux couvrir leurs larrecins.
1. Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).
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