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In momentaneam felicitatem.
Transitory success
EMBLEMA CXXIIII.
Aeriam propter crevisse cucurbita pinum
Dicitur, & grandi luxuriasse coma:
Cùm ramos complexa, ipsumque egressa cacumen,
Se praestare aliis credidit arboribus.
Cui pinus, Nimium brevis est haec gloria: nam te,
Protinus adveniet, quae malè perdet, hiems.
A gourd, it is said, grew beside a lofty pine and flourished with abundant foliage. When it had enveloped the branches and grown taller than the tree-top, it then thought itself superior to the other trees. The pine said to it: This glory is exceedingly brief. For winter will shortly come which will utterly destroy you.
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Sur occasion.
Dialogisme et, Prosopopoeie>.
De Lysippus[1] suys l’ouvrage de pris,
D. Qui es tu donq’. R. l’Article du temps pris.
D. Pourquoy sur roue, aux piedz as tu des aeles?
R. Car tousjours tourne, à tous vents
faisans voiles.
D. Pourquoy tiens tu rasoir? R. Ce signe
argue.
Que plus que nul trenchant je suys ague.
D. Pourquoy derriere es chaufve, & cheveleure
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Has au devant? R. pour estre prinse à l’heure,
Affin que si l’on me laisse eschapper,
On ne me puisse apres aulx crins happer.
Pour toy suys faicte en tel art phantasticque,
Pour tous instruire, ouverte est la boutique.
Occasion est le poinct du temps
oportun à faire, ou à veoir les
choses utiles, lequel quand il se
offre, & est bien prins, trenche &
depesche, Aussi omis: passe, &
s’en va soubdainement, sans plus
jamais povoir estre recouvré.
1. Greek sculptor, 4th century BC.
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