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In cui non sa usare adulatione.

On who does not know how to flatter.


a man dressed nobly on a rearing horse
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Hor queste, hor quello il fier destrier scavalca
E spesso in danno suo muta padroni.
Non sa punto adular: per questo calca
Quei che di cavalier rende pedoni.
Al fin s’abbatte in un, che lo cavalca,
E che lo sa domar con briglia e sproni.
On d’egli per trovar chi l’ami e prezzi;
Mansueto diviene, e cangia vezzi.

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S’endurcir à ce qui resiste.

XXIIII.

A man hanging from the leaves of a palm tree.
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La palme estant fort roide & dure,
Resiste au poids qu’elle supporte:[1]
Enfant donc de bonne nature,
Pense quel signe ce rapporte:
Cueille des fruicts qui celle porte:[2]
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [C3v p38] C’est que sois constant à la lettre:
Car qui plus de sçavoir remporte,
En plus haut estat se void estre.

commentaires.

La palme est en perpetuelle verdeur, & est la plus
constante de tous les arbres: tant plus on la pense ab-
baisser, plus elle se rehausse, & esleve avec soy la pe-
santeur qu’on luy append pour la penser deprimer.
C’est pourquoy autrefois on bailloit un rameau de
palme aux victorieux, pour marque & pour enseigne
de leur valeur: & proverbialement, Emporter la pal-
me, se prend pour avoir obtenu la victoire. Tant plus
nous rencontrons de difficultés tant plus nous faut-il
roidir & evertuer. Outre la vertu de sa plante & de
ses branches, elle porte un fruict, qui s’appelle dattes,
& desquelles on fait grand cas és banquets.

Notes:

1.  The reaction of palm to a heavy weight is mentioned in various ancient sources, e.g. Pliny, Natural History 16.81.223; Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.6. See also Erasmus, Parabolae p.263. It probably refers to a plank of palm-wood, rather than a branch of the living tree.

2.  See Erasmus, Parabolae p.241: ‘the palm-tree, having bark with knife-sharp edges, is difficult to climb, but it bears delicious fruit’.

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