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Les richesses des luxurieux.
X.
Fruicts maussades produit le figuier haut perché
Sur la cime d’un roc pres de la
mer panché.
Corneilles & corbeaux ses figues seulement
Devorent, sans qu’aucun s’en sente aucunement.
Des riches malvivans ainsi l’avoir se broute
Par putains & flatteurs, & nul juste n’en gouste.[1]
Commentaires.
Demosthene nommoit les riches
ignorans, des bre-
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bis d’or: Car l’on ne porte ny laine, ny peau, ny chair,
dont les hommes se puissent servir: Et Diogene les
accomparoit aux figuiers qui naissent en
des precipi-
ces, le fruict desquels il est impossible de cueillir, tel-
lement qu’il est laissé aux corneilles, corbeaux &
geais, lesquels s’en repaissent. Et Dieu permet, que ces
mauvais riches, qui n’eurent jamais aucun desir de
bienfaire aux gents de bien & de vertu, sont le plus
souvent affrontés & despouillés de leurs moyens par
putains, flatteurs, & autres tels garnements, qui con-
sument leurs richesss encor pis qu’elles
n’ont esté ac-
quises.
1. This is based on an idea in Anthologia Graeca, 12.185.
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Contra los engañadores.
SEMIOTTAVA.
Aquella lagartija que es llamada
Stellio,[1] es d’el engaño conocida
Señal, y de la invidia en
si dañada,
De las zelosas nueras bien sabida.
1. Stellio, ‘the starred gecko’. See Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.461 for the explanation of the name stellio.
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