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Reverence estre requise en Mariage.
Quand le serpent veult froyer au poisson,
Il met tout hors son venin, & poison,
Puys en sifflant la muraine il appelle:[1]
Incontinent vers son masle vient elle.
Ainsi doibt estre en un lict nuptial
Honneur des deux, tresreverential.
A l’exemple du prudent serpent, qui devant que froyer avec la
muraine (soit lamproie, ou autre") vomit
& laisse son ve-
nin, & icelle à son appel sifflant, obeyt, & vient vers luy: Ain-
si les gens mariéz se doivent assembler en Amour, & reve
rence l’ung de l’autre, toute male affection, & courroux
jecté hors du coeur, & despoillé quant & quant les habitz.
1. For the mating of the viper with the moray eel, see Pliny, Natural History 9.39.76; Aelian, De natura animalium 1.50; 9.66. The viper spits out the poison in order to be gentle and safe for the union.
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