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Reverence est requise en mariage.
X.
Quand le Serpent, pour s’accoupler,
Appelle en sifflant la Lamproye:
Avant qu’à elle s’assembler,
Il jecte son venim par
voye:[1]
Partant il faut que chacun croye,
Qu’au mariage honneur est deu,
Si qu’au mariés on ne voye
Jamais venim en aucun lieu.
commentaires.
La vipere, la plus meschante & la plus cause de
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tous les serpents, de
desir de s’accoupler, s’en
va au bord de la mer, & là par son siffler fait enten-
dre sa venue à la lamproye son amoureuse: laquelle
attendant, elle jecte & vomit tout son venim au pro-
chain buisson, à fin de s’accoupler en toute netteté &
sincerité avec son
espouse. La lamproye sort inconti-
nent de le mer, & lors ils se joignent ensemble: Quoy
faict l’une s’en reva en la mer, l’autre, ayant rehumé
son venim, regaigne
sa tasniere. Cecy nous apprend
que les mariages doyvent tousjours estre
vuides &
& exempts de tout venim, mauvais mesnage, & sinistre
imagination, s’aimans uniquement, &
se rendans
tous devoirs l’un à l’autre.
1. For the mating of the viper with the moray eel, see Pliny, Natural History 9.39.76; Aelian, De natura animalium 1.50; 9.66. The viper spits out the poison in order to be gentle and safe for the union.
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REVERENTIAM IN MATRIMO
NIO REQUIRI .
Respect is required in marriage
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Cum furit in Venerem, pelagi se in littore sistit,
Vipera, & ab stomacho dira venena vomit.
Murenamque ciens ingentia sybila tollit,
At subito amplexus appetit illa viri.[1]
Maxima debetur thalamo reverentia, coniunx,
Alterum debet coniugi & obsequium.
When the viper is sexually aroused, it stations itself on the seashore and ejects the dread poisons from its gut. To summon the moray eel, it raises a loud hissing, and suddenly she comes to the embrace of her mate. - Great reverence is owed to the marriage bed, and the partners owe each other mutual respect.
1. For the mating of the viper with the moray eel, see Pliny, Natural History 9.39.76; Aelian, De natura animalium 1.50; 9.66. The viper spits out the poison in order to be gentle and safe for the union.
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