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Douceur porte bien amertume.
LXXXIX.
Cupidon peu loing de
sa mere,
Mouche à miel pour oisel prenant,
Sentit tost sa morsure amere:
Si crie, & fuit incontinent.
Venus rid, puis dit: maintenant
Si mouche à miel fust amoureuse,
Tell’ douleur ne te fust donnant:
Sans toy toute chose est fascheuse.[1]
commentaires.
Cupidon, s’estant mal à propos esloigné de sa mere
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Venus, alla vers des abeilles, pour cueillir leur miel:
mais elles se jecterent sur luy furieusement, & le pic-
querent en plusieurs endroits: si qu’il luy convint
s’enfuir bien viste vers sa mere. Nous sommes appris
par cest embleme, que bien peu souvent avons nous
de la joye & de la douceur, qu’il
n’y ayt quelque
douleur & fascherie meslee parmi.
1. This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.548 , where a baby, called Hermonax, is stung to death. See also Anthologia graeca 9.302 for another epigram treating the same incident.
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