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Mesdisance.
LXVII.
D’Archiloque[1] au tumbeau la guespe
est engravee,
Pour monstrer que sa langue estoit envenimee.
Commentaires.
Archiloque fut si picquant & mordant en sa
poësie, que par ses poignants jambes il contraignit
Lycambe, son beau pere, de
s’aller estrangler. De là
est venu qu’on a appelé Archiloques tous ceux qui
ont escrit d’un stile ainsi venimeux. Les guespes sont
engravees sur son tumbeau, non seulement pource
qu’elles sont enrouëes & mordantes, mais aussi pour-
ce que d’elles on ne tire ny plaisir ny proffit.
1. Archilochus was an eighth-century BC poet, author of much (now fragmentary) verse, including satire. This last was considered in antiquity to be excessively abusive and violent. See Horace, Ars Poetica, 79; also Erasmus, Adagia, 60 (Irritare crabrones).
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Mesdisance.
Sur le tombeau d’Archiloc,[1] Guespes sont,
Qui signe vray de malle houche [=bouche]
font.
Archiloc, Poëte Graec Iambic, en ses escriptz armé
de mesdisance, represenre [=represente]
tous hommes mesdisans
de parolle, ou d’escript, au reste à bien faire inurti-
les [=inutiles]
, telles que sont les Guespes, qui en grand bruyt
murmurantes, picquent tresaigrement, & ne font
miel, ne cire.
1. Archilochus was an eighth-century BC poet, author of much (now fragmentary) verse, including satire. This last was considered in antiquity to be excessively abusive and violent. See Horace, Ars Poetica, 79; also Erasmus, Adagia, 60 (Irritare crabrones).
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