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SECOND LIVRE DES
Emblemes d’Alciat.
Contre ceux qui s’enrichissent du
dommage publique.
I.
Qui veut aux anguilles pescher,
Ne cherche pas l’eau belle & claire:
Elle luy seroit trop contraire:
Il luy faut l’eau trouble cercher.
Ainsi ces gros loups ravissans,
Qui engloutissent les petits,
En paix ne font pas leurs proffits:
Mais la guerre les rend puissans.[1]
Commentaires.
Cecy est prins de la
fable d’Esope, où le pescheur
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dit, qu’il luy faudroit mourir de faim, s’il ne troubloit
l’eau, à fin que les poissons s’enfuyans, se jectassent plus
facilement dans ses filets. Helas, Combien y a-il de
gents, qui ressemblent à ce pescheur, lesquels pour fai-
re leur proffit, & remplir leurs bourses,
sement des trou-
bles & divisions és royaumes & republiques, qui
bien souvent en sont desolees
& ruïnees: où aussi
Dieu permet que le troubleur mesme y demeure en-
veloppé.
1. Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).
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EMBLEMA CXVIII.
In divites publico malo.
Those who grow rich out of public misfortune
Anguillas quisquis captat, si limpida verrat
Flumina, si illimes ausit adire lacus,
Cassus erit, ludetque operam: multum excitet ergo
Si cretae, & vitreas palmula turbet aquas,
Dives erit: sic iis res publica turbida lucro est,
Qui pace, arctati legibus, esuriunt.[1]
If anyone hunting eels sweeps clear rivers or thinks to visit unmuddied lakes, he will be unsuccessful and waste his efforts. If he instead stirs up much clay and with his oar churns the crystal waters, he will be rich. Likewise a state in turmoil becomes a source of profit to people who in peace go hungry, because the law cramps their style.
Das CXVIII.
Wider die so reich mit andern scha-
den werden.
Ein jeder der Ael fahen wil
So er die hellen Wasser stil
Fischt, und so er sich understeht
Und in die lautern gruben geht
Der schafft vergebns und sein müh ist
Umb sonst, so er aber mit list
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Das Wasser trüb macht und darinn
Vil gmür auff rürt, hat er gut gwinn
Also ist auch die Policei nütz
Die mit vil auffruhr wirt verstürtzt
Denen die sonst im fried und ruh
Darben und haben nicht darzu.
1. Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).
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