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Amour, affection trespuissante.
VII.
Voyez ce petit charretier,
Qui sçait mettre au joug les Lions,
Nous pourra-il point chastier,
Pour faire ce que ne voudrions?
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Nos coeurs donc faut qu’ailleurs plions:
Car s’il est puissant pour ces bestes,
Pensez vous que nous en allions,
Sans qu’il nous lie coeurs & testes?[1]
commentaires.
C’est une chose admirable, de la force de l’enfant
Cupidon, qu’il en vienne jusques là, que de
domter les
farouches lions. Il tient son fouet en la droite, & et avec
la gauche il manie le renes & la
bride: & toutesfois
il a le visage benin & amiable. Loin de nous, loin
de nous ceste peste: car s’il peut venir à bout de dom-
ter & vaincre une si furieuse beste, il nous pourra
beaucoup plus aisement surmonter & mettre sous son
joug: nous, dis je, qui sommes si foibles
& imbecilles.
Qui a esté plus sainct que David, plus sage que Sa-
lomon, plus fort que Samson? & toutesfois cest enfant
en est venu à bout.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.221, an epigram about a seal carved with a representation of Eros driving a chariot drawn by lions.
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