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Tousjours malheur est prest.
Jadis jouoient d’ung eage trois pucelles,
Laquelle iroit premiere ą mort, d’icelles:
L’une rioit, qui heut la pire chance,
Du sort futur ne voyant la meschance.
Soubdain sur elle une tuylle tomba,
Et du fol jeu, le destine paya.
Jamais malheur ne fault, soit bon, ou jeu:
Mais ą bon heur, priere, & main n’ha lieu.[1]
Ceste histoire de chose advenue par cas d’adventure: tesmoi-
gne, que soit ą bon, soit ą jeu: plus promptement advient ma-
lheur, que bon heur. Et pource tout bon raciocinateur doibt
mettre les choses attendues au pis: pour mieulx avoir.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.158.
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MALE PARTA MALE DILA-
buntur.[1]
Ill gotten, ill spent
Emblema 127
Miluus edax,[2] nimiae quem nausea torserat escae,
Hei mihi mater, ait, viscera ab ore fluunt.
Illa autem, quid fles? cur haec tua viscera credas,
Qui rapto vivens sola aliena vomis?
A voracious kite, which had eaten too much, was racked with vomiting. ‘O dear, mother’, it said, ‘entrails are pouring out of my mouth.’ She however replied: ‘What are you crying about? Why do you think these are your entrails? You live by plunder and vomit only what belongs to others.’
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