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Mal acquis, mal se perd.[1]

Par trop manger ung Milan mal estoit,[2]
Et se plaignoit que les boyaux gectoit.
Ce ne sont pas (dist sa mere) les tiens.
Tu vis de rapt, rien que d’aultruy ne tiens.

Ung rapineur quand il despend, il ne despend
rien du sien propre, mais de l’aultruy mal ac-
quis: dond il ne luy doibt estre grief: & de la
vient que les tyrans sont si prodigues, des
biens extortionnez.

Notes:

1.  The title is proverbial. See Cicero, Philippics, 2.65.

2.  The kite was a figure of greed and extortion.

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    MALE PARTA MALE DILA-
    buntur.[1]

    Ill gotten, ill spent

    Emblema 127

    Two birds of prey, one vomiting.
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    Miluus edax,[2] nimiae quem nausea torserat escae,
    Hei mihi mater, ait, viscera ab ore fluunt.
    Illa autem, quid fles? cur haec tua viscera credas,
    Qui rapto vivens sola aliena vomis?

    A voracious kite, which had eaten too much, was racked with vomiting. ‘O dear, mother’, it said, ‘entrails are pouring out of my mouth.’ She however replied: ‘What are you crying about? Why do you think these are your entrails? You live by plunder and vomit only what belongs to others.’

    Notes:

    1.  The title is proverbial. See Cicero, Philippics, 2.65.

    2.  ‘A voracious kite’. The kite was a figure of greed and extortion.

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