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Rien de vestu.
Cela restoit à nos malheurs meschants,
Que les langoustz gastassent tous nos champs.[1]
Veuz les avons en armées plus grandes,
Que d’Atylas, ou de Xerxes les bandes:[2] Link to an image of this page []Tout ha mangé foin, mil, bled, celle peste.
Espoir perdu, rien que souhaict ne reste.
L’une des dix playes d’Aegypte furent les
Langoustes, consumantes tout fruyct, fleur,
& semence sur terre, & telle fut en Lombar-
die au temps que cest Embleme fut escript.
qui vola jusque en Provence, puys se gecta
en mer. Sur quoy fut cecy escript, signifiant
que à toute reste perdue, à la chance, ou au
flux ne reste sinon le souhaict, ou le desespoir.
1. Referring to a plague of locusts in North Italy in 1541/2 (as in the commentary).
2. Attila the Hun and Xerxes, King of Persia, were leaders who invaded the Roman Empire and Greece with vast armies in mid fifth century AD and 480 BC respectively. Xerxes’ invasion and Attila’s first invasion both came from the east.
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