
Malè parta malè dilabuntur.[1]
Ill gotten, ill spent
EMBLEMA CXXVIII.
Miluus edax,[2] nimiae quem nausea torserat escae,
Hei mihi, mater, ait, viscera ab ore fluunt.
Illa autem, quid fles? cur haec tua viscera credas,
Qui rapto vivens sola aliena vomis?
A voracious kite, which had eaten too much, was racked with vomiting. ‘O dear, mother’, it said, ‘entrails are pouring out of my mouth.’ She however replied: ‘What are you crying about? Why do you think these are your entrails? You live by plunder and vomit only what belongs to others.’
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Contre felicité peu durable.
PROSOPOPOEIE.
Aupres d’un pin une cocourbe creut,
Et largement fueilles, fruyct, & fleur heut.
L’ors quand du Pin, les branches surpassoit:
Plus que tout arbre estre grande pensoit.
Le Pin luy dict. Ta gloire est par trop courte:
L’hyver viendra qui te destruira toute.
La gloire fondée sur choses peu durables, est vanité,
ou vaine gloire, qui tombe incontinent en honte, &
despris, comme se glorifier de beaulté, qui tost deflo-
rit: de sante & richesse,
que tost perit: d’estat, qui ne du
re gueres, & du quel facilement on peut estre demis.
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