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La gourmandise.
LXVI.
Qui veut representer un goulu ou goulue,
Grosse panse il luy baille, & un grand
col de grue,[1]
Et luy met sur ses poings la foulque & le butor.
Tel estoit un Denis,[2]
& un Apice encor,[3]
Qui par leur gloutonnie & molle friandise
Font qu’encor aujourd’huy pour goulus on les prise.
Commentaires.
La foulque & le butor sont oiseaux extremement
goulus, & qui ne se peuvent jamais soulersouler: & pource
sont-ils employés par les poëtes, quand ils veulent re-
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marquer un vray goulu. Denys &
Apice sont te-
nus pour patriarches des frians: aussi en ont-ils publié
des preceptes, qui encor aujourd-huy se
voyent tra-
duicts en divers vulgaires: Ils ne sont pas seuls. Il n’y
en a que trop encor par tout.
1. These birds were symbols of ravenous greed. The pelican is called inexplebile animal, ‘insatiable creature’, by Pliny, Natural History, 10.66.131; cf. Emblem 83 ([FALe083]). For the gull, see Erasmus, Adagia, 1133 (Larus: the gull will also fit food-suppliers because it is a bird with an appetite for fish).
2. Dionysius II, Tyrant of Syracuse. After his deposition, he lived in Corinth, and many anecdotes were told of his indulgent way of life there, including the story that he died of being overweight.
3. Apicius was a famous gourmet of the time of the Emperor Tiberius. See Seneca, De consolatione, 10.8-9 and Martial, Epigrams, 3.22: he spent a hundred million sesterces on food items and committed suicide for fear of starvation on discovering that he had only one million left. He composed two cookery books, but the one which has come down to us under his name is a fourth- to fifth-century compilation drawing on his works and several others (ed. princ. Le Signerre, Milan 1498).
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