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Sottie.
APOSTROPHE.
T’esbahiz tu, si Ote je te nomme,
Quoy que tu sois des Otons extraict homme?
Ote oyseau ha d’oreille, & plume autant
Qu’une Chouete:[1] & est prinse en saultant:
Les folz aiséz à prendre.[2] Otes on dict.
Pren doncque ce nom pour toy, car il te duyct.
Cest Embleme ne vient pas proprement
au Francois: comme au Latin, pour ne
pouvoir rendre une certaine allusion des
noms Latins, aulxquelz les Francois ne
peuvent correspondre. Mais en somme il
signifie que à ung sot, nom sot est con-
venable.
1. See Pliny, Natural History, 11.50.137: only the eagle-owl and the long-eared owl have feathers like ears (the little owl - chouette - does not in fact have ear-tufts).
2. See Pliny, Natural History, 10.33.68: ‘The otus is an imitator of other birds and a hanger-on, performing a kind of dance; like the little owl, it is easily caught, when its attention is fixed on one person while another person circles round it’. See also Plutarch, Moralia, Bruta animalia ratione uti, 951E.
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SUPERBIA.
Pride.
Niobe, pero ch’a
i Dei volle agguagliarsi,
Per miracol divin
pietra divenne:
Il che a le Donne puote assimigliarsi,
Che alcun humiltà
mai di rado tenne.
Superbe son le femine, e a tutt’hore
Dura ostination
sta lor nel core.
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