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Le Sapin.
Le Sapin croist es mons, & sert en leau [=l’eau]
.
En lieu contraire, est souvent profict beau.[1]
Le sapin croissant es haultes montaignes, descend
es basses rivieres: pour faire plus grand profict. Car
pour estre resineux, & legier, il est propre à faire
basteaux. Ainsi a plusieurs est expedient changer de
lieu, & se mettre de plus hault, en plus bas pour meil-
leur usage.
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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