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AVARICE.
Contre les Avaricieux.
PROBLEME.
Septitien riche entre tous marchans,
Duquel nul plus n’ha de terres, & champs
Perd en jeunant soy, & ses tables braves:
Ne mange rien sinon bletes, & raves,
Que semble cil que rend povre abondance?
Ung asne? Oy. Il en ha l’evidence: Link to an image of this page [G6v p108]Car l’asne porte, & viandes, & chairs dons,
Et se nourrit de ronces, & chardons.[1]
Bien asne est celluy qui abondant en bons
fromens, vins, bestail, & volaille: mange pain
moisy, L’ard rance, & boit vin tourné, ou
despense.
1. Cf. Anthologia graeca 11.397, concerning a miser called Artemidorus.
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Avarice.
LXV.
Tantale en l’eau plongé, est
de la soif pressé.
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Ayant pommes au nez est de faim harassé.
C’est à toy povre avare, à qui cecy
s’addresse,
Qui ayant tant de biens, en amasses sans cesse,
Qui souvent d’aspre faim &
grieve soif languis,
Ne voulant entamer tant de thresors acquis.
Commentaires.
La convoitise des biens mondains, si elle n’est as-
saisonnee de quelque contentement, est beacoup plus
dangereuse, qu’une extreme povreté. Tantale ne peut
appaiser sa soif, quoy qu’il soit entouré d’eaux:
ny
estaindre sa faim, quoy qu’il soit environné de pom-
mes. C’est le vray type des avares, qui se
rendans be-
listres en leur abondance, parmi leurs grands biens
souffrent les maux de la pauvreté.
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