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Sur la statue de pudicité.
Penelopé suyvre Ulysses vouloit.
Son pere Icar à soy la retenoit.
L’ung offre Itaque, & l’autre Sparte en Grece:
L’amour du pere, & du mary la presse.
Parquoy se siet: les mains devant les yeulx,
Signe pudic à l’ung d’estre aimé myeulx.
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Ce qu’entendant Icar: en signe tel
D’honte Pudicque eleva ung autel.[1]
Penelopé est la plus renommée femme en
chasteté, qui soit en toute l’escripture des
Grecz. Et pource son image fut elevée sur
ung autel, entre deux hommes, l’ung vieil,
qui, estoit son Pere Icar Prince de Sparte,
l’autre jeune qui estoit Ulysses son mary
Seigneur d’Itaque, tournée vers Ulysses:
mais toutesfois couvrant ses yeulx de ses
mains, par honte pudicque, de ce que licite-
ment est commandé par Nature: laisser pe-
re & mere, pour suyvre son party en ma-
riage.
1. See Pausanias, Periegesis, 3.20.10, for this statue and the story behind it.
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