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Rien de vestu.

Cela restoit à nos malheurs meschants,
Que les langoustz gastassent tous nos champs.[1]
Veuz les avons en armées plus grandes,
Que d’Atylas, ou de Xerxes les bandes:[2]
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  []Tout ha mangé foin, mil, bled, celle peste.
Espoir perdu, rien que souhaict ne reste.

L’une des dix playes d’Aegypte furent les
Langoustes, consumantes tout fruyct, fleur,
& semence sur terre, & telle fut en Lombar-
die au temps que cest Embleme fut escript.
qui vola jusque en Provence, puys se gecta
en mer. Sur quoy fut cecy escript, signifiant
que à toute reste perdue, à la chance, ou au
flux ne reste sinon le souhaict, ou le desespoir.

Notes:

1.  Referring to a plague of locusts in North Italy in 1541/2 (as in the commentary).

2.  Attila the Hun and Xerxes, King of Persia, were leaders who invaded the Roman Empire and Greece with vast armies in mid fifth century AD and 480 BC respectively. Xerxes’ invasion and Attila’s first invasion both came from the east.

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    Nil reliqui.

    Nothing left

    A grasshopper or locust.
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    Scilicet hoc deerat, post tot mala denique nostris
    Locustae ut raperent, quidquid inesset, agris.[1]
    Vidimus innumeras euro[2] duce tendere turmas,
    Qualia non Atylae castrave Xerxis erant.[3]
    Hae foenum, milium, corda omnia consumpserunt;
    Spes & in angusto est, stant nisi vota super.

    This was all it needed - that after so many misfortunes, finally locusts should seize whatever was in our fields. We have seen countless squadrons encamped, led by Eurus, hosts such as Attila and Xerxes never had. These creatures have eaten up all hay, millet and later crops. There is little scope for hope unless our prayers prevail.

    Notes:

    1.  Referring to a plague of locusts in North Italy in 1541/2 .

    2.  Eurus was the wind from the East.

    3.  Attila the Hun and Xerxes, King of Persia, were leaders who invaded the Roman Empire and Greece with vast armies in mid fifth century AD and 480 BC respectively. Xerxes’ invasion and Attila’s first invasion both came from the east.

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