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Aller où Dieu appelle.
LXXVII.
Sçais tu que denote Mercure,[1]
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Sur des pierres pres de la voye:
Et qui de la monstrer prend cure,
A fin que nul ne se fourvoye?
Il veut dire, que Dieu pourvoit
En ce mondain chemin, les hommes.
Sans son ayde, on s’esgareroit
En tant de faux sentiers où sommes.
commentaires.
Les chemins fourchus, qui se divisent en trois ou
quatre diverses voyes, rendent le voyageur merveil-
leusement perplex & incertain. C’est pourquoy an-
ciennement en ces quarrefours ambigus, on
eslevoit
sur des pierres une statue de Mercure, ou plustost
seulement depuis la ceincture en haut, laquelle avec
son doigt ou ses doigts designoit
pour où aller estoyent
les chemins qui se presentoyent,
Aujourd’huy encor,
en la Chrestienté, en
plusieurs Croix il y a des batons
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ou liteaux qui enseignent les-dits chemins. Et encor
souvent il n’y a que des chevrons ou autres pieces de
bois, plantees en terre, qui servent
à celà mesme. Les
payens avoyent accoustumé d’attacher ou apposer à
ces Mercures des bouquets & chappelets de fleurs.
Le plus dangereux trivie ou chemin fourchu, c’est ce-
luy qui se presente souvent
à nos ames. Dieu nous
face la grace de
nous addresser & conduire tousjours
au droit chemin de ses statuts & ordonnances, & ne
permette jamais que nous nous en esgarions.
1. Mercury was, among his many other functions, the god of travellers.
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- 'en route', traveller under way [46C513] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals (+ wings of an animal) [25F(+342):25F(+154)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2515(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body (+ holding something) [31A2516(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury: petasus [92B58(PETASUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boulder, stone [25H1124] Search | Browse Iconclass
- caduceus (staff with two snakes, attribute of Mercury) [92B58(CADUCEUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- carrying something on the head or on the shoulders [46C1215] Search | Browse Iconclass
- container of textile material: bag, sack [41A777] Search | Browse Iconclass
- cross-roads, bifurcation [46C116] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ men's clothes) [41D211(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (with NAME) (+ men's clothes) [41D221(HAT)(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking downwards [31B6212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sceptre, staff (symbol of sovereignty) [44B192] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- the course of life symbolized [11R3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking [31A2711] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Herm: pillar with the head of Mercury, patron of travellers [92B572] Search | Browse Iconclass
- piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture [48C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
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