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Le Sapin.
Le Sapin croist es mons, & sert en leau [=l’eau]
.
En lieu contraire, est souvent profict beau.[1]
Le sapin croissant es haultes montaignes, descend
es basses rivieres: pour faire plus grand profict. Car
pour estre resineux, & legier, il est propre à faire
basteaux. Ainsi a plusieurs est expedient changer de
lieu, & se mettre de plus hault, en plus bas pour meil-
leur usage.
1. This is because it grows strong by withstanding the gales and harsh weather. Contrast Anthologia Graeca, 9.30ff, 105, and the much-translated 376 for an opposing view of the fir tree: ‘how can the fir, storm-tossed while growing on land, resist the gales at sea?’ 9.31 was translated by Alciato (Selecta epigrammata, p. 98).
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Le laurier.
XXXIII.
Le laurier dit le bien qui arrive aux humains,
Et mis sous le chevet rend les songes certains.[1]
Autre.
Qu’on donne du laurier à
Charles la couronne,
Qui a vaincu l’Afrique: aux seuls preux on la donne.[2]
Commentaires.
Le laurier, symbole des devinements, est consacré
à Apollon, que les payens tenoyent pour Dieu des
predictions. La feuille de laurier
mise au feu, si elle pe-
tille, presagit bonheur, &
malheur si elle brusle sans
bruit. Les amoureux s’en servent en leurs complain-
tes. L’autre distique est faict en faveur de l’Empe-
reur Charles cinquieme, qui prit par force Thunis en
Afrique sur le Corsaire Barberousse.
1. The laurel was sacred to Apollo, god of prophecy. The priestess of Apollo at Delphi induced a prophetic trance by chewing laurel leaves. Prophecies were sometimes written on laurel leaves. If laurel leaves crackle when thrown into the flames, happiness is portended.
2. Emperor Charles V took Tunis in North Africa in 1535.
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