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Le sens plus requis que beaulté.
XLVIII.
Une teste faicte de marbre,
Fut un jour du Renard trouvee
En passant par dessous un arbre:
Laquelle il eut tantost levee,
Voicy teste bien
achevee,
Dit-il, & d’un art moult nouveau:
Mais elle est en un poinct grevee,
Car elle n’a point de cerveau.[1]
commentaires.
Le renard (animal qui surpasse tous les autres en
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finesse & en cautelle) estant entré en la boutique d’un
sculpteur, y trouva une teste d’homme fort bien &
artificiellement faicte, & si naifvement gravee &
polie, que rien ne luy defailloit que l’ame. Tenant donc
entre ses pattes ceste teste, il se print à dire, O que ce-
ste teste est belle & delectable à voir: mais elle n’a
point d’entendement. Il se treuve une fable d’Esope
toute semblable à ceste embleme. Cecy nous enseigne
que c’est peu de chose d’avoir le corps beau & bien
formé, s’il n’est accompagné des biens de
l’ame. Il est
donc meilleur d’estre laid & difforme, moyennant
qu’on soit sage & prudent: que d’estre beau & mi-
gnard de corps, & n’avoir esprit ny entendement.
1. See Phaedrus, Fables 1.7 (also in iambic senarii); Aesop, Fables 43.
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MENTEM NON FORMAM
plus pollere.
Intelligence matters, not beauty
Ingressa vulpes in Choragi pergulam,
Fabre expolitum invenit humanum caput.
Sic eleganter fabricatum, ut spiritus
Solum deesset, caeteris vivesceret,
Id illa cum sumpsisset in manus ait,
Hoc[1] quale caput est, sed cerebrum non habet.[2]
A fox, entering the store-room of a theatrical producer, found an actor’s mask, skilfully shaped, so finely fashioned that the spirit alone was missing, in all else it seemed alive. Taking it up, the fox addressed it - What a head is this, but it has no brain!
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