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Par argent quelque fois fault
racheter sa vie.
Apostrophe.
Le Bievre gros en ventre, & en pied lasche
Se saulve, ainsi quand sur luy chiens on lasche:
Ses medicaulx coillons arrache, & mord,
Sachant pour eulx estre cherché à mort.
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Par tel exemple appren à n’espargner
Perdre l’argent, pour la vie gaigner.[1]
A l’exemple du Bievre (dict Ca-
stor,) qui ses coillons arrachéz à ses
propres dents, laisse au veneur, &
aulx chiens, pour sauver le corps:
Nous sommes admonnestez de
n’e-
spargner en cas de necessité toutz
biens de Fortune, & Nature, dond
on se puisse passer pour saulver le
principal, qu’est la vie.
1. This is based on Aesop, Fables 153, where the same moral is drawn. For the information about the beaver, see Pliny, Natural History 8.47.109; Isidore, Etymologiae (Origines) 12.2.21.
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AEre quandoque salutem redimendam.
Sometimes money must be spent to purchase safety
Et pedibus segnis, tumida & propendulus alvo
Hac tamen insidias effugit arte fiber.
Mordicus ipse sibi medicata virilia vellit
Atque abicit, sese gnarus ob illa peti.
Huius ab exemplo disces non parcere rebus
Et vitam ut redimas, hostibus aera dare.[1]
Though slow of foot and with swollen belly hanging down, the beaver nonetheless escapes the ambush by this trick: it tears off with its teeth its testicles, which are full of a medicinal substance, and throws them aside, knowing that it is hunted for their sake. - From this creature’s example you will learn not to spare material things, and to give money to the enemy to buy your life.
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Le salut se doit acheter.
Le Byevre qui Castor sappelle,
Des veneurs, & des chiens presse,
Aux dens ses genitaulx expelle:
Car pour autre bien nest chasse.
Ce mal rend plusgrand mal passe.
Surquoy le prudent peult entendre:
Quil fault quicter bien amasse,
Premier que grand peril attendre.
1. This is based on Aesop, Fables 153, where the same moral is drawn. For the information about the beaver, see Pliny, Natural History 8.47.109; Isidore, Etymologiae (Origines) 12.2.21.
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