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Prudentes.
The Wise.
Iane bifrons, qui iam transacta futuraque calles,
Quique retro sannas sicut & ante vides,
[1]
Tot te cur oculis, tot fingunt vultibus? an quòd
Circunspectum hominem forma fuisse docet?
Two-headed Janus, you know about what has already happened and what is yet to come, you see the jeering faces behind just as you see them in front. Why do they represent you with so many eyes, why with so many faces? Is it because this form tells us that you were a man of circumspection?
1. quique retro sannas, sicut et ante, vides, ‘you see the jeering faces behind just as you see them in front’, a line based on Persius, Satirae, 1.58-62.
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Contre les frauduleux.
IX.
La lezarde, ayant
corps tasché de poincts divers,
Qui se loge aux tumbeaux, & aux murs entrouverts,
D’envie & de tout dol represente l’image,
Helàs, par trop congnue aux femmes de nostre aage.
Qui boit le vin où est cest animal noyé,
De lentilles se void le visage ondoyé.
Les femmes volontiers ceste finesse employent,
Pour celles enlaidir qui leurs maris desvoyent.
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Commentaires.
Comme Ascalaphe fut converti en lezarde, la fa-
ble s’en trouve en la Metamorphose d’Ovide. C’est un
animal envieux, & duquel les femmes se servent pour
rendre laides & difformes les garses de leurs maris,
leur faisant boire le vin où cest animal
aura esté e-
stainct & faict mourir. Car qui boit tel vin, il se trou-
ve bien tost le visage tout chargé
de lentilles. Cest ani-
mal se despouille de sa peau, aussi bien que les serpents:
mais il la devore aussi tost, pour l’envie qu’il porte
aux hommes, ausquels ceste peau sert de bon remede
contre le haut mal. Or ce que sa peau est ainsi tachet-
tee & tavelee de macules sans nombre, sans doute
celà denote la fraude & la malice qui est
en cest a-
nimal. Marque que nous pouvons aussi appliquer
aux hommes: car (si on croid le vulgaire) qui a le
corps taré, n’a guieres souvent l’esprit net.
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