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La plus part de ce que l’on dit de
l’antiquité est controuvé.
VII.
O Protee vieillard,[1] qui comme un charlatant
Changes à coup de forme, or’ homme, or’ beste estant,
Dy moy
d’où te provient ceste grande inconstance,
Si que jamais tu n’es en estat
d’asseurance?
Je represente ainsi l’antiquité qu’on prise,
De laquelle chacun fait comptes à sa guise.
Commentaires.
Protee, selon quelques uns, estoit de Pallene: Les
autres tiennent qu’il estoit
Egyptien. Cest embleme
reprend l’impudence & inconstance de plusieurs,
lesquels, ou pour avoir beaucoup d’annees sur la te-
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ste, ou pour avoir beaucoup voyagé, ou bien, pour a-
voir leu plusieurs anciens historiographes, se
laschent
toute bride à controuver des fables & mensonges.
1. Proteus was ‘the Old Man of the Sea’, who evaded capture by constantly changing his shape. See e.g. Homer, Odyssey, 4.400ff.; Vergil, Georgics, 4. 405-10, 440-2; Erasmus, Adagia, 1174 (Proteo mutabilior). Vergil (Georgics, 4.391) describes him living near the headland of Pallene (on the Macedonian coast). The idea of Proteus as a gifted actor or mime-artist is taken from Lucian, Saltatio, 19.
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Contra los engañadores.
SEMIOTTAVA.
Aquella lagartija que es llamada
Stellio,[1] es d’el engaño conocida
Señal, y de la invidia en
si dañada,
De las zelosas nueras bien sabida.
1. Stellio, ‘the starred gecko’. See Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.461 for the explanation of the name stellio.
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