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Obnoxia infirmitas.
Weakness is vulnerable
Emblema clxix.
Pisciculos Aurata rapit medio aequore sardas,
Ni fugiant pavidae, summa marísque petant.
Ast ibi sunt mergis fulicísque voracibus esca.
Eheu intuta manens undique debilitas!
The little sardines the golden wrasse swallows in the depths of the ocean, unless in fear they flee and make for the surface of the sea. But there they provide a meal for greedy divers and other sea-birds. Alas for weakness, remaining everywhere at risk.
UT nullo non loco ditiores, & qui sunt fortuna
ampliore, tutum in praesidium se recipiunt: ita
miseri, & aliqua parte infirmi homines praecipites
in exitium ruunt, quocunque fugiant: nam ubi è
suorum lapsi telis, ad exteros venerint, ibi miserè
periclitantur & occidunt.
Link to an image of this page [Y4v f232v]Que la foiblesse est sujette à malheur.
LA Dorade poursuit les petites Sardaignes,
Qui fuyent dans la mer ne se pouvans sauver:
Mais le Plongeon illec les sçait tresbien trouver,
Ou la Poulle de mer, & en font gorges pleines
Làs, le malheur qui suyt la foible pauvreté,
Qui mettre ne se peust jamais à sauveté.
COmme les riches, & ceux qui ont de
grans moyens, en quelque lieu qu’ils se
rencontrent, se sauvent & se mettent à seur-
té: ainsi les pauvres gens, & autres qui sont
aucunement souffreteux, quelque part qu’ils
fuyent, sont tousjours malheureux. car quand
il [=ils]
sont eschappez des menees qui leurs estoient
brassees par ceux du pays, s’estans rendus
chez les estrangers, ilz y trouvent leur rui-
ne, & y meurent.
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Que los pequeños tambien se han de temer.
Ottava rhima.
Guerra el Escarabajo mantenia
Con l’aguila mayor en fortaleza,
Mas con consejo la fuerça
vençia
D’ella que en poco tuvo su nobleza.
Entre las plumas d’ella se
escondia
Hasta subir a’l nido, y con destreza
Quebrandole los huevos, satisfecho
Quedava de aquel mal que le avia echo.[1]
1. For the feud between the eagle and the beetle, see Aesop, Fables 4; Erasmus, Adagia 2601, Scarabaeus aquilam quaerit.
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