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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.’

Notes:

1.  The title is proverbial. See Cicero, Philippics, 2.65.

2.  ‘A voracious kite’. The kite was a figure of greed and extortion.


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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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