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Les Couleurs.
Noir est couleur de dueil. Tous en usons,
Quand funeraille aulx trespassez faisons.
La robe blanche est d’innocence signe:
Et pource l’aube aulx presbtres on assigne.
Verd nous demonstre espoir.[1] Car Esperance
En l’herbe verde ha de fruyct apparence.
Faulveau est propre aulx avars, & putains,
Et ceulx qui hont heu leurs espoirs certains.
Aulx gens de guerre & de sang, rouge eschet,
Et aulx enfans, aulxquelz honte bien siet
Le bleu convient aulx Nautonniers, & ceulx
Qui estonnéz cherchent les mers, & cieulx,
Bureaux nayfz de vil pris, sont idoines
Aulx Capussins, & ces enfuméz moines.
Roux Jaune affiert. à celluy que tourmente
Ou grande cure, ou Amour vehemente.
Violet clair est couleur oportune
A qui content, porte ennuy de Fortune.
Comme Nature est diverse en couleurs
Aulx ungs, & aultre, ainsi plaisent les leurs.[2]
Les devises, & signifiances des couleurs sont à plaisir
selon les affections des personnes. Mais toutesfois
les meilleures sont celles, qui le plus pres approchent
du naturel. Comme le blanc de innocence, le rouge
de honte, le noir, de dueil, ou mort, le verd d’esperan-
cs, & aultres telles.
1. ‘Green teaches us to hope’. Cf. Emblem 42, line 5. ‘in the green’ echoes the phrase in herba, for hopes unfulfilled. See e.g. Ovid, Ex Ponto, 16.263: ‘adhuc tua messis in herba est’ (your harvest is still in green leaf).
2. ‘each of us is pleased by what is his own’. Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 115 (suum cuique pulchrum).
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