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Contre les temeraires.

Apodeixe.

Man (Phaeton) falling from the chariot of the sun being drawn through the sky by horses. Sun shining down.
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Voy Phaëton sur le char de son pere,[1]
Qui les chevaulx povoir regir espere:
Apres avoir le monde en feu bouté
Tombe du char ou fol estoit monté:
Ainsi maints Roys jeunes, dessus la Rouë
De la fortune elevéz: qui s’en jouë
Apres du peuple, & d’eulx perdition,
De leurs malfaictz ont la punition.

Les Princes temeraires destruisent eulx mesmes, &
leurs peuples, & puys: finalement en sont puniz.

Notes:

1.  Phaethon, the son of Apollo, the sun-god. The myth referred to here is told in Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.748 - 2.349. Both Phaethon and Icarus CHECK ([A58a096]) are types of those who aim too high and do not recognise their proper sphere.

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