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Avarice.
Apostrophe.
Tantal mourant de soif pres la fontaine,
Prendre ne peut la pomme à luy prochaine.
Ce nom changé, de toy (Avare) est dit,
Qui has grans biens, & n’en prens pas le fruits.
Les avaricieux ont leur enfer de ce mon-
de, damnez (comme Tantal) à ne pouvoir
jouyr, & user des biens, au milieu desquelz
ilz sont plongéz.
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Avarice.
LXV.
Tantale en l’eau plongé, est
de la soif pressé.
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Ayant pommes au nez est de faim harassé.
C’est à toy povre avare, à qui cecy
s’addresse,
Qui ayant tant de biens, en amasses sans cesse,
Qui souvent d’aspre faim &
grieve soif languis,
Ne voulant entamer tant de thresors acquis.
Commentaires.
La convoitise des biens mondains, si elle n’est as-
saisonnee de quelque contentement, est beacoup plus
dangereuse, qu’une extreme povreté. Tantale ne peut
appaiser sa soif, quoy qu’il soit entouré d’eaux:
ny
estaindre sa faim, quoy qu’il soit environné de pom-
mes. C’est le vray type des avares, qui se
rendans be-
listres en leur abondance, parmi leurs grands biens
souffrent les maux de la pauvreté.
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