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Il se fault endurcir contre les ad-
versitez praesentes.
APOSTROPHE.
Contre la charge hault la Palme s’eleve
Et croist tant plus, que sa charge est plus greve,[1]
Glandz odorans portant, & delectables,[2]
Ayans l’honneur premier es bonnes tables.
Or monte (enfant) es rameaulx le fruyct pris:
Car Qui sera constant: aura le pris.
Pour quelque adversité, ou contrarieté qui advien-
ne, point ne fault laisser une bonne entreprinse, Mais
perseverer constamment jusque à fin heureuse.
1. The reaction of palm to a heavy weight is mentioned in various ancient sources, e.g. Pliny, Natural History 16.81.223; Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.6. See also Erasmus, Parabolae p.263. It probably refers to a plank of palm-wood, rather than a branch of the living tree.
2. See Erasmus, Parabolae p.241: ‘the palm-tree, having bark with knife-sharp edges, is difficult to climb, but it bears delicious fruit’.
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In adulari nescientem.
Unable to flatter
CVI.
Scire cupis dominos toties cur Thessalis ora[1]
Mutet, & ut varios quaerat habere duces:
Nescit adulari, cuiquamve obtrudere palpum,[2]
Regia quem morem principis omnis habet.
Sed veluti ingenuus sonipes, dorso excutit omnem,
Qui moderari ipsum nesciat, Hippocomon.[3]
Nec saevire tamen domino fas, ultio sola est,
Dura ferum ut iubeat ferre lupata magis.[4]
Do you want to know why the land of Thessaly changes its overlords so often, how it comes about that it looks for different leaders? - It does not know how to flatter, or how to stroke anyone the right way, the behaviour every prince’s court displays. Like a noble stallion, it throws from its back every horseman who does not know how to control it. Nor may the master treat the horse savagely: his only course of action is to make the creature wear a harsher bit with jagged teeth.
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Celluy qui ne scait flater.
CVI.
Le peuple de la Thessalie,
Souvent scait de princes changer.
Car de flater n’a la folye:
Et ne peult vivre en tel danger.
Ung cheval se veult descharger,
Quand son maistre par trop le picque.
Ung sieur doibt ses gens solager,
Entre estat rude & juridique.
1. In later editions, Thessaly is replaced with Insubris ora, ‘land of the Insubres’, i.e. the plain of Milan, Alciato’s home area. Various Gallic tribes, including the Insubres, inhabited this region in the Classical period. Cf. [A50a002], and see Alciato, Historia Mediolanensis col.6.
2. ‘stroke...the right way’. See Erasmus, Adagia 2527, Obtrudere palpum.
3. ‘horseman, groom’. See Plato, Politicus 261d for the image of the ruler as supervisor of a stud of horses.
4. ‘a harsher bit with jagged teeth’. A jagged-toothed bit was used on intractable horses, and also in breaking-in. See Erasmus, Parabolae p.136: the horse despises a smooth bit.
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