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Sur celuy qui procure mal à soy-
mesme.
Prosopopoeie.
A grand regret je Chievre un loup allaicte
Mais mon pasteur le nourrir se delecte,[1]
Quand creu sera, il fauldra qu’il me mange:
Par nul bienfaict mauvaistie ne se change.[2]
Plusieurs nourrissent ceulx, par les-
quelz ilz seront destruictz.
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A ceux qui s’apprestent dommage.
XCI.
Voyez moy povre
& simple Chievre,
Qui laisse un Loup mon pis teter.[1]
J’en suis dolente, & pis qu’en fievre:
Car mal m’en sentiray traicter.
Mon maistre deust bien regretter
Cest acte, s’il fust homme expert:
Veu qu’on a sceu
pieça noter,
Qu’en tous meschans plaisir se perd.
commentaires.
La chevre, estant contrainte d’allaicter & nour-
rir un louveteau, se complaint, fort angoissee, de ce
que le pasteur le vouloit ainsi. Car elle se
doutoit bien,
qu’incontinent qu’il seroit devenu
grand, il ne fau-
droit point de la devorer:
d’autant que les meschans
& malicieux oublient incontinent les biensfaicts re-
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ceus. On dit en commun proverbe, qu’il ne faut point
nourrir les petits des loups: car le loup change bien
de poil, mais non jamais de naturel.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.47. For the content cf. Aesop, Fables 313-5.
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