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Sur le Senat d’ung bon Prince.
Dialogisme.
Images sont devant l’autel des Dieux,
D’ond la premiere aveugle, n’ha point d’yeulx
Du Sainct Senat, & potestatz bien dignes
Par les Thebans[1] furent trouvéz ces signes,
D. Pourquoy sont ilz assis? R. (Car en repos
Doibvent juger sans changer de propos).
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D. Pourquoy sans mains. R. (Pour ne prendre aulcun don
Et ne fleschit [=fleschir]
par presens à pardon)
D. Pourquoy le Prince aveugle est? R. (Action
Senat constant faict sans affection.)
Cest la figure du bon Senat de Thebes Cité
jadis tresflorissante en la
Boeotie de Graece. Ce
que les Senateurs sont assis: signifie prudence
d’esprit bien arresté. Car (comme dict le Phi-
losophe) en estant assis, & en
repos, l’ame se faict
prudente, Et les mains coupées, pour ne pren-
dre aulcuns dons, ne presentz, pour estre cor-
rompuz. Le Prince aveugle denote jugement
sans cognoissance, ou acception de personne.
1. This is Thebes in Egypt. See Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 10; also Erasmus, Adagia 2601, Scarabaeus aquilam quaerit.
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