Link to an image of this page [L8v p176]
Sur le Senat d’ung bon Prince.
DIALOGISME.
Images sont devant l’aultel des Dieux,
D’ond la premiere aveugle, n’ha point d’yeulx
Du Sainct Senat, & potestatz bien dignes
Par les Thebans[1] furent trouvéz ces signes,
D. Pourquoy sont ilz assis? R. (Car en repos
Doibvent juger sans changer de propos). Link to an image of this page [M1r p177]D. Pourquoy sans mains. R. (Pour ne prendre aulcun don
Et ne fleschir par presens à pardon)
D. Pourquoy le Prince aveugle est? R. (Action
Senat constant faict sans affection.)
Cest la figure du bon Senat de Thebes Cité
jadis tresflorissante en la Boeotie de Graece. Ce
que les Senateurs sont assis: signifie pruden
ce d’esprit bien arresté. Car (comme dict le
Philosophe) en estant assis, & en repos, l’ame
se faict prudente, Et les mains coupées, pour ne
prendre aulcuns dons, ne presentz, pour estre
corrompuz. Le Prince aveugle denote juge-
ment sans cognoissance, ou acception de per-
sonne.
1. This is Thebes in Egypt. See Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 10; also Erasmus, Adagia 2601, Scarabaeus aquilam quaerit.
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