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Le Morier.[1]
Consommé, & finy L’hyver, lors le
Morier, apres les aultres grandz arbres,
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commence à jecter ses fleurs, & germes, hors
les dangiers des froidures, & gelées, Ainsi
faict le sage, qui ne s’advance point en tous
affaires, avant qu’il soit temps, & ne hazarde
rien, à dangier, mais au plus seur. Parquoy,
il est nommé en Grec Moros par sens cont-
raire, Car Μωρος en Grec est à dire fol: &
il est sage, qui ne gecte point sa fleur, & son
fruyct, que tout le peril d’hyver ne soit con
sommé.
1. The woodcut here is a fairly close, laterally inverted, copy of that used in the 1549 French edition.
2. Reference to a supposed ‘etymology by opposites’: Latin morus ‘mulberry’ was equated with Greek μῶρος ‘fool’, but the tree was considered wise: see note 2.
3. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.25.102: ‘the mulberry is the last of domesticated trees to shoot, and only does so when the frosts are over; for that reason it is called the wisest of trees’.
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Link to an image of this page [C3v f19v]Abies.
The fir tree
Apta fretis abies in montibus editur altis:
Est & in adversis maxima commoditas.[1]
The fir tree that is fit to sail the sea grows high up on the hills. Even in hard circumstances, there is great advantage to be found.
1. This is because it grows strong by withstanding the gales and harsh weather. Contrast Anthologia Graeca, 9.30ff, 105, and the much-translated 376 for an opposing view of the fir tree: “how can the fir, storm-tossed while growing on land, resist the gales at sea?” 9.31 was translated by Alciato (Selecta epigrammata, p. 98).
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