
Victoire acquise par fraude.
IX.
Vertu suis sur ce tombeau peincte,
Rompant mes cheveux & visage:
Qui fais pour Ajax ma complainte,
Qu’on priva de son heritage:
Car Ulysses, par beau langage,[1]
Eut les armures d’Achilles:
Link to an image of this page [B1v p18]
Ainsi beau parler fait dommage,
Et a maint droits anichilés.
commentaires.
Vertu se lamente sur le sepulcre d’Ajax (que les
uns mettent au promontoire Sigee, les autres le met-
tent au promontoire Rhetee,) & se plaint à cause du
tort & injure que les Grecs firent à Ajax, Seigneur
tresvaillant, lequel ayant tant
bien faict en la guerre
de Troye, neantmoins l’armure
d’Achilles luy fut
re-
fusee, qui de droit luy appartenoit, & l’emporta Ulys-
ses par son babil & ruse. Ce qu’Ajax porta si impa-
tiemment, qu’il en vint hors du feu, de honte & de
cholere, & en fin se tua. Pleust à Dieu
qu’aujour-
d’huy on n’eust pas tant d’occasion de pleurer & se
plaindre pour les injustices qui se font és sieges de ju-
stice.
1. The Greek assembly awarded the arms of the dead Achilles to the cunning and eloquent Ulysses, not the brave and straight-forward Ajax. For Ajax’ subsequent suicide, see Daly 028.
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