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Le sapin.
XXXIV.
On bastit du sapin, qui
croist és monts
hautains,
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Et en terre & en mer les maisons des humains.[1]
Commentaires.
Cest embleme remarque la grande utilité qu’on
tire du sapin: Car plus commodement que de toute
autre sorte de bois, on en bastit les navires & les mai-
sons: à quoy il est de tout propre, mais sur tout aux
travenaisons. On le peut aussi appliquer à ceux qui
pour l’esperance de grandes
recompenses, ne font pas
difficulté de changer de condition, & d’encourir des
grands dangers: ainsi que le sapin laisse les hautes
montaignes, où il croist, pour descendre aux vallees
voire sur l’eau.
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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