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Ceux qui tendent aulx choses hautai-
nes, souvent tombent bas.
Comme un chasseur rhetz aux oiseaux tendoit
Et traictz en l’air aux grues debendoit,
Sur ung serpent marcha: qui pour mal tel
En le mordant jetta venin mortel:
Ainsi mourut les yeux trop haut levant:
Ne prenant garde à ce qu’estoit devant.[1]
Il ne faut pas pretendre à
choses si hautes,
que l’on ne regarde à la fortune immi-
nente, & prochaine.
Notes:
1. See Anthologia graeca 7.172 and Aesop, Fables 137.
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- farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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