
Les choses doulces quelque fois
deviennent ameres.
APOSTROPHE.
Le filz Venus fut picqué des aveilles:
Sa mere loing laissée, vint vers elles,
En les pensant plaisans oyseletz estre.
Mais le serpent n’est si cruel, ne traistre:
Car avec miel, hont l’aguillon qui poingt.
Helas douleur: sans toy plaisir n’est point.[1]
Comme L’aveille avec le doulx miel ha l’aguillon,
qui poingt: ainsi en ce mortel monde n’est doulceur
de plaisir: qui n’ayt son amertume de douleur.
Car douleur est de Volupte compaigne.
1. This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.548 , where a baby, called Hermonax, is stung to death. See also Anthologia graeca 9.302 for another epigram treating the same incident.
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