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Sur Occasion.

DIALOGISME, ET PROSOPOPOEIE.

Young woman standing naked on a wheel in the sea holding a scarf/sail and a razor shell.
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De Lysippus[1] suys l’ouvrage de pris,
D. Qui es tu doncque. R. l’Article du temps pris.
D. Pourquoy sur roue, aulx piedz has tu des aeles,
R. Car tousjours tourne, à tous vents faisant voiles.
D. Pourquoy tiens tu rasoir. R. Ce signe argue?
Que plus que nul trenchant je suys ague.
D. Pourquoy derriere es chaufve, & cheveleure
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [K3v p150]Has au devant? R. Pour estre prinse à l’heure
Affin que si l’on me laisse eschapper,
On ne me puisse apres aulx crins happer.
Pour toy suys faicte en tel art phantasticque,
Pour tous instruire, ouverte est la boutique.

Occasion est le poinct du temps
oportun à faire ou à veoir les
choses utiles, lequel quand il se
offre, & est bien prins, trenche &
depesche, Aussi omis: passe, &
s’en va soubdainement, sans plus
jamais povoir estre recouvré.

Notes:

1.  Greek sculptor, 4th century BC.

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Fortuna virtutem superans.

Fortune triumphant over virtue

EMBLEMA CXIX.

Soldier falling on his own sword.
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Caesareo postquàm superatus milite, vidit
Civili undantem sanguine Pharsaliam;
Iam iam stricturus moribunda in pectora ferrum,
Audaci hos Brutus protulit ore sonos:
Infelix Virtus; & solis provida verbis,
Fortunam in rebus cur sequeris dominam?[1]

Brutus, defeated by the Caesarean troops, saw Pharsalia flowing with citizen blood. As he was about to plunge the sword into his dying heart, he spoke these words with undaunted voice: ‘Unhappy virtue, prudent only in word - why do you in reality submit to dominating fortune?’

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1.  After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius became the leaders of the Republican cause. The Caesarean troops, led by Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar’s heir, defeated them in 42 BC in two battles at Philippi in Macedonia. (Pharsalus in Thessaly was the site of the battle in 48 BC in which Julius Caesar had defeated Pompey in a previous round of the Civil Wars. Pharsalia is here loosely used, as in the Roman poets, to refer to both sites of similar civil conflict.) For Brutus’ suicide after the defeat, see the end of Plutarch’s Life of Brutus.

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