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Hoirie d’ung riche homme.
D’ung costé sont les Graecz, d’aultre Troyans,
Soubz faulx harnois Patrocle distraians [=distrayans]
.[1]
Les armes prent Hector, les Grecz le corps.
Tel jeu se faict: quand les riches sont mors.
Proces en vient: mais L’heritier tout part,
Et aulx corbeaulx, & vaultours laisse part.[2]
Patrocle, souverain amy d’Achilles, fut
par Hector occis, & despoillé des ar-
mes excellentes d’icelluy Achilles, & la
charoigne laissée aulx Graecz, & aulx oy
seaulx: Ainsi d’ung riche homme mort,
couvert des faulx biens de Fortune: (qui
ne sont propres à luy) L’heritier en prent
la despoille, & succession, les plaidoieurs
quelque portion, les Presbtres le corps
avec la funeraille.
1. For the death of Patroclus, see Homer, Iliad, 16.784ff. He borrowed Achilles’ armour to fight the Trojans when Achilles refused, and was killed by Hector, who took the armour.
2. ‘Vulture’ was a term used to refer to people who hang round rich persons, hoping for a legacy See Erasmus, Adagia, 614 (Si vultur es, cadaver exspecta).
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