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Sur l’Image d’Esperance.
Dialogisme.
D. Qui t’ha pourtraicte, (O gentille Déesse)
Les yeulx levéz, à face de liesse?
R. (Elpid’[1] m’ha faicte: & suis dicte Esperance,
Qui aux afflictz donne preste allegeance)
D. Pourquoy has tu verde robe de joyé?
R. (C’est pour autant que par moy tout verdoye)
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D. Pourquoy tiens tu rompuz les traictz de mort?[2]
R. (Car le vif doibt esperer: non le mort.)
D. Pourquoy siez tu d’un vaisseau sur le bout?
R. (Seulle restay tous maulx volans par tout)
Comme Hesiode ha dict.[3] D. Quel oyseau has?
R. (C’est la Corneille en son chant disant cras.)[4]
D. Tes compagnons quelz sont? R. (Soubdain desir,
Bonne adventure:[5] & Songes à plaisir.)
D. Qui pres de toy? R. (C’est vengeante fortune,
Pour n’esperer sinon chose oportune.
C’est la description d’Esperance, qui
tient l’homme joyeux, dure jusque, &
oultre la mort. Est le seul
confort des malheureux, & attend tout,
& mieulx à lendemain, se forge sou-
haitz à plaisir. Et est du tout bonne,
sinon quand elle ha presumption. Car
presumptueuse Esperan-
ce est soub-
dain punie par vengence de fortu-
ne, contraire à l’espoir.
1. Elpidius is an invented name derived from Greek ἐλπίς, ‘hope’.
2. For Death’s arrows cf. CHECK [A58a146], [A58a147].
3. See Hesiod, Opera et dies 90ff. for the story of Pandora’s box or jar
4. The crow was a bird of prophecy and an emblem of hope. Its caw was interpreted as cras, cras, ‘tomorrow, tomorrow’. Cf. the proverb, Quod hodie non est, cras erit: ‘What is not today shall be tomorrow.’
5. Bonus Eventus or Bonne Aventure, cf. Evento Buono in Ripa, Iconologia; also called ‘Success’ or ‘Happy Ending’.
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