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A ceux qui s’apprestent dommage.

XCI.

A wolf cub suckles on a goat. There is a squirrel on the branch of a tree behind.
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Voyez moy povre & simple Chievre,
Qui laisse un Loup mon pis teter.[1]
J’en suis dolente, & pis qu’en fievre:
Car mal m’en sentiray traicter.
Mon maistre deust bien regretter
Cest acte, s’il fust homme expert:
Veu qu’on a sceu pieça noter,
Qu’en tous meschans plaisir se perd.

commentaires.

La chevre, estant contrainte d’allaicter & nour-
rir un louveteau, se complaint, fort angoissee, de ce
que le pasteur le vouloit ainsi. Car elle se doutoit bien,
qu’incontinent qu’il seroit devenu grand, il ne fau-
droit point de la devorer: d’autant que les meschans
& malicieux oublient incontinent les biensfaicts re-
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [I2v p132] ceus. On dit en commun proverbe, qu’il ne faut point
nourrir les petits des loups: car le loup change bien
de poil, mais non jamais de naturel.

Notes:

1.  This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.47. For the content cf. Aesop, Fables 313-5.

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EMBLEMA CXVII.

In receptatores sicariorum.

Those who harbour cut-throats

Deer with a man's face being attacked by dogs
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Latronum furumque manus tibi saeva[1] per urbem
It comes: & diris cincta cohors gladiis.
Atque ita te mentis generosum prodige censes,
Quod tua complures allicit olla malos,
En novus Actaeon, qui postquàm cornua sumpsit,
In praedam canibus se dedit ipse suis.[2]

A fierce band of ruffians and thieves accompanies you about the city, a gang of supporters armed with lethal swords. And so, you wastrel, you consider yourself a fine lordly fellow because your cooking pot draws in crowds of scoundrels. - Here’s a fresh Actaeon - he, after he grew his horns, became the prey of his own hunting dogs.

Das CXVII.

Wider die so sich zu der Landsknecht und
Buben Rott gesellen.

Dich Lurtsch, So du gehst durch dstat
Volget dir nach ein hauffen drat
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [M2v f77v] Der frechen und verwegnen Knecht
Mit gwerter hand ein unnütz Gschlecht
Und meinst also seystdu alsdann
Dester Edler im Gschlecht und Stamm
Dieweil du hast an dich gehengt
Ein Gottloß Rott, durch miet und schenck
Sich an ein neuwen Actean
Welcher da er die Hörner gewan
Wurd er von seinen eigen Wind [=Hind]
Zerrissen und gefressen gschwind.

Notes:

1.  Other editions read scaeva, ‘evil-minded’. The capital letter in some editions suggests that the Latin word could be taken as a proper name in the vocative case, i.e addressing one Scaeva.

2.  For the story of Actaeon turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138ff. Similarly, the hangers-on will destroy the one who has fed them.

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