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L’Amendelier.
APOSTROPHE.
Amendelier, Pourquoy si tost floris?
Trop bons ne sont les trop prompts esperitz.[1]
L’Amendelier est le premier arbre qui fleurit, & cel-
luy qui plustost perit. Aussi les trop hastifz esperitz
(comme dict Quintilian) à grand peine jamais par-
viennent à fruyct.
Notes:
1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: ‘the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition’.
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