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A la jeunesse.

II.

De Jupiter les deux enfans,
Doués de jeunesse eternelle,
Fils de Latone & de Semele,[1]
Soyez vous jeunes cent mil ans.
Faites moy tousjours jeune aussi.
Chasse avec le vin tout souci,
Bacchus, & toy Phebus dechasse
L’infirmité qui tant me fasche.
Faites que vieillesse chagrine
De six vingts ans mon corps ne mine.

Commentaires.

Jupiter eut Phebus de Latone, & Bacchus de Se-
mele. Alciat dit par cest Embleme, que ceux là vi-
vront long temps & en santé, lesquels chasseront au
loing tous soucis cuisans & rongeans, & qui seront
moderés en leur boire & manger, mais sur tout en
leur boire. Il attribue à Bacchus, c’est à dire au vin, la
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [L5r p169] puissance de chasser le souci, moyennant que nous en
usions sobrement: & aux Medecins, (qu’il designe
sous le nom de Phebus) le pouvoir de jecter hors de
nos corps les humeurs peccantes.

Notes:

1.  Apollo (son of Latona) and Bacchus (son of Semele), gods of healing and of wine. Beautiful and ever young, they were often linked, e.g. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.421; 4.18; Epistulae (Heroides), 1.14.31. For Bacchus, see ([FALd067]).

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    EMBLEMA CXVIII.

    In divites publico malo.

    Those who grow rich out of public misfortune

    Anguillas quisquis captat, si limpida verrat
    Flumina, si illimes ausit adire lacus,
    Cassus erit, ludetque operam: multum excitet ergo
    Si cretae, & vitreas palmula turbet aquas,
    Dives erit: sic iis res publica turbida lucro est,
    Qui pace, arctati legibus, esuriunt.[1]

    If anyone hunting eels sweeps clear rivers or thinks to visit unmuddied lakes, he will be unsuccessful and waste his efforts. If he instead stirs up much clay and with his oar churns the crystal waters, he will be rich. Likewise a state in turmoil becomes a source of profit to people who in peace go hungry, because the law cramps their style.

    Das CXVIII.

    Wider die so reich mit andern scha-
    den werden.

    Ein jeder der Ael fahen wil
    So er die hellen Wasser stil
    Fischt, und so er sich understeht
    Und in die lautern gruben geht
    Der schafft vergebns und sein müh ist
    Umb sonst, so er aber mit list
    Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [M3r f78r] Das Wasser trüb macht und darinn
    Vil gmür auff rürt, hat er gut gwinn
    Also ist auch die Policei nütz
    Die mit vil auffruhr wirt verstürtzt
    Denen die sonst im fried und ruh
    Darben und haben nicht darzu.

    Notes:

    1.  Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).

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