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Desidiam abiiciendam.
Away with idleness.
Quisquis iners abeat, in choenice figere sedem[1]
Nos prohibent Samii[2] dogmata sancta senis.
Surge igitur, duroque manus adsuesce labori,
Det tibi dimensos crastina ut hora cibos.
Let the idle man take himself off -- the holy pronouncements of the old sage of Samos forbid us to sit tight on the bushel-box. Get up therefore, get your hands accustomed to hard work, so that tomorrow’s hour may give you your due measure of sustenance.
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Chasser paresse
Voisent au loing, gens paresseux:
Dieu na point cy noz repoz mis:
Dont Pithagoras blasme ceulx
Qui sont sans art, & endormis:
Car contre le sens des formis,
Ne gaignent que pour ung jour vivre:
Comme qui leur auroit promis,
Que sante les doibt tousjours suyvre.
1. This saying, which became a proverbial expression of idleness, is quoted in various ancient sources (e.g. Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride10). A bushel was a day’s ration of corn, and ‘to sit on the bushel-box’ (a container holding a bushel measure, and convenient in size for sitting on) meant to be idle and improvident, leaving tomorrow to take care of itself, since today was provided for.
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