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Par argent quelque fois fault
rachepter sa vie.
APOSTROPHE.
Le Bievre gros en ventre, & en piedz lasche
Se saulve, ainsi quand sur luy chiens on lasche:
Ses medicaulx coillons arrache, & mord,
Sachant pour eulx estre cherché à mort. Link to an image of this page [M5v p185]Par tel exemple appren à n’espargner
Perdre largent [=l’argent]
, pour la vie gaigner.[1]
A l’exemple du Bievre (dict Ca-
stor,) qui ses coillons arrachéz
à ses propres dents, laisseau [=laisse au]
ve-
neur, & aulx chiens, pour sauver
le corps: Nous sommes admon
nestez de n’espargner en cas de
necessité toutz biens de Fortu
ne, & Nature, dond on se puisse
passer pour saulver le principal,
qu’est la vie.
1. This is based on Aesop, Fables 153, where the same moral is drawn. For the information about the beaver, see Pliny, Natural History 8.47.109; Isidore, Etymologiae (Origines) 12.2.21.
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