Section: LA VIE. View all emblems in this section.
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Par argent quelque fois fault
racheter sa vie.
Apostrophe.
Le Bievre gros en ventre, & en pied lasche
Se saulve, ainsi quand sur luy chiens on lasche:
Ses medicaulx coillons arrache, & mord,
Sachant pour eulx estre cherché à mort.
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Par tel exemple appren à n’espargner
Perdre l’argent, pour la vie gaigner.[1]
A l’exemple du Bievre (dict Ca-
stor,) qui ses coillons arrachéz à ses
propres dents, laisse au veneur, &
aulx chiens, pour sauver le corps:
Nous sommes admonnestez de
n’e-
spargner en cas de necessité toutz
biens de Fortune, & Nature, dond
on se puisse passer pour saulver le
principal, qu’est la vie.
1. This is based on Aesop, Fables 153, where the same moral is drawn. For the information about the beaver, see Pliny, Natural History 8.47.109; Isidore, Etymologiae (Origines) 12.2.21.
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Section: LE PRINCE. View all emblems in this section.
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Sur le Senat d’ung bon Prince.
Dialogisme.
Images sont devant l’autel des Dieux,
D’ond la premiere aveugle, n’ha point d’yeulx
Du Sainct Senat, & potestatz bien dignes
Par les Thebans[1] furent trouvéz ces signes,
D. Pourquoy sont ilz assis? R. (Car en repos
Doibvent juger sans changer de propos).
Link to an image of this page [M2v p180]
D. Pourquoy sans mains. R. (Pour ne prendre aulcun don
Et ne fleschit [=fleschir]
par presens à pardon)
D. Pourquoy le Prince aveugle est? R. (Action
Senat constant faict sans affection.)
Cest la figure du bon Senat de Thebes Cité
jadis tresflorissante en la
Boeotie de Graece. Ce
que les Senateurs sont assis: signifie prudence
d’esprit bien arresté. Car (comme dict le Phi-
losophe) en estant assis, & en
repos, l’ame se faict
prudente, Et les mains coupées, pour ne pren-
dre aulcuns dons, ne presentz, pour estre cor-
rompuz. Le Prince aveugle denote jugement
sans cognoissance, ou acception de personne.
1. This is Thebes in Egypt. See Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 10; also Erasmus, Adagia 2601, Scarabaeus aquilam quaerit.
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