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In fertilitatem[1] sibi ipsi damnosam.

Fruitfulness bringing its own destruction

XXXIX.

Boys knocking nuts out of a tree with sticks
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Ludibrium pueris lapides iacientibus, hoc me
In trivio posuit rustica cura nucem.
Quae laceris ramis perstrictoque ardua libro,
Certatim fundis per latus omne petor.
Quid sterili posset contingere turpius? eheu,
Infelix fructus in mea damna fero.[2]

A countryman’s care placed me, a nut tree, at this cross-roads, where I am the butt of stone-throwing boys. I have grown tall, but my branches are broken, my bark bruised, I am attacked with sling-stones, competing on every side. What worse fate could befall a barren tree? Alas, cursed tree that I am, I bear fruit to my own destruction.

Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [F5r p89]

Fertilite dommageable.

XXXIX.

Lhas moy miserable noyer,
Suis je pas malheureux de vivre?
Je rends fruict, & pour mon loyer
Coups de tous coustez on me livre:
La plante que rien ne delivre,
N’a pas tant que moy de douleurs.
Dont voyez que a bienfaict poursuyvre,
Plusieurs augmentent leurs malheurs.

Notes:

1.  Textual variant: foecunditatem.

2.  This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.3, see also Aesop, Fables 152.

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Publiée soit de la femme
Non la beaulté, mais bonne fame.

Apostrophe, et Dialogisme.

Woman standing with one foot on a tortoise, Cupid holding her hand. Man in background with hand raised to a small figure (child?) lying on a bed.
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D. Dame Venus, quelle forme est ce à veoir,
Dessoubz tes piedz une tourtue avoir?
R. Ainsi voulut Phidias[1] me tailler:
Pour remonstrer aulx femmes peu parler.
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [Q7r p253] Et point sortir de maison, estre honneste.
Et pource il mit soubz mes piedz telle beste.

La Tortue est du tout muete, sans voix ne
parolle, ne sort jamais de sa conque, & est
plus nette, saine, & meilleure en dedans:
qu’elle n’appert en forme exterieure: Telle
doibt, estre la femme de bien, paisible, tai-
sible, gardant la maison, & point cogneuë
par veuë externe, comme en Italie.

Car publiée estre doibt Loyaulté
De preude [=] preu de femme, & non pas la beaulté.

Notes:

1.  Phidias’ statue of Aphrodite with one foot on a tortoise, set up at Elis, is mentioned by Pausanias, Periegesis 6.25.1. The tortoise is a symbol of ideal female domesticity, as it keeps silent and never leaves its house see Plutarch Coniugalia praecepta 32 (Mor. 142).

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