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Les remedes sont difficiles, & les
maulx tresfaciles, & prompts.

A woman with wings and talons for feet(Harpie) flying through the air with three old women following on behind.
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Depuys que Dieu jecta des cieulx Até,[1]
Las que de maulx hont les mortelz gasté:
Car elle va du pied, & volle d’aele,
Et rien ne laisse ou mal ne soit faict d’elle.
Lites apres filles de Jupiter
Vont, pour les maulx qu’elle ha faict rapoincter.[2]
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [K8v p160]Mais pource qué vieilles sont, & foiblissent
Rien, fors long temps apres, ne restablissent.

Les maulx viennent à cheval, & s’en
vont à pied. C’est à dire que tout mal
est prompt à venir: tout bien tardif. Ce
que Homere ha signifié par Até (qui
est à dire nuisance) jectée du ciel (qui
ne seuffre point de mal) en terre, & ha
aeles volantes legierement, Piedz le-
giers, mains gryphonnantes. Et par les
Lites, (c’est à dire restaurations du mal)
filles de Dieu, Mais vieilles, aveugles,
& foibles, & tardifves: qui viennent re-
parer le mal: mais long temps apres.

Notes:

1.  ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.

2.  ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.

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REMEDIA IN ARDUO MALA
in prono esse.

Remedies are hard, damage is easy

Old man with a staff following a snake like figure with wings
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Aetheriis postquam deiecit sedibus Aten,
Iupiter[1] heu vexat quàm mala noxa viros.
Evolat haec pedibus celer & pernicibus alis,
Intactumque nihil casibus esse sinit.
Ergo litae proles Iovis hanc comitantur euntem,[2]
Sarcture quicquid fecerit illa mali.
Sed quia segnipedes strabe[3] lassaeque senecta,
Nihil nisi post longo tempore restituunt.[4]

Once Jupiter had cast Ate down from the heavenly abode, what an evil bane thereafter assailed poor man! Ate flies out fleet of foot with fast-beating wing and leaves nothing untouched by mishap. So Jove’s daughters, the Litae, accompany her as she goes, to mend whatever ill she has brought about. But they are slow-footed, poor of sight and weary with age, and so they restore nothing until later, after long passage of time.

Notes:

1.  ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.

2.  ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.

3.  Textual variant: luscae.

4.  The woodcut is puzzling. Possibly the monster is supposed to represent Ate; in later editions she appears as a harpy-like figure. The Litae feature, in later editions, as old women. The old man presumably represents the suffering of mankind.

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