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S’esjouïr en Dieu.
XXXII.
Cil qui en Dieu se resjouït,
Et y a tousjours sa pensee,
De ce qu’il veut tantost jouïr,
Ayant voye à bien dispensee:
Et sent son ame estre avancee
Contre le ciel qu’il souhaictoit:
Comme si l’Aigle en l’air dressee,
Pour Ganymedes l’emportoit.[1]
commentaires.
Les poëtes se sont imaginés, que Ganymedes, fils de
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Tros Roy de Troye, estant d’une admirable beauté,
fut tant aimé de Jupiter, qu’il le fit ravir & porter au
ciel par l’aigle, (oiseau qui luy est peculierement de-
dié, & que mesmes on appelle son coustillier:) & là
le fit estre son eschanson. Homere a
inventé cecy, à fin
de nous apprendre, que celuy qui est humble d’esprit
& syncere, comme un enfant,
n’a autre deduit &
pensement, qu’a penser à Dieu,
& mediter continuel-
lement ses oeuvres & ses ordonnances, eslevant son
esprit au ciel, comme s’il estoit porté par une aigle.
1. Ganymede, son of the Trojan prince, Tros, snatched away by the gods to be Jove’s cup-bearer. See Homer, Iliad 20.232ff, though the eagle is a post-Homeric addition. The Greek motto in the accompanying illustration means ‘to delight in counsels’, referring to a supposed etymology of the name Ganymedes, for which see Xenophon, Symposium 8.30.
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- coast [25H13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flying (+ variant) [31A2762(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gripping someone by the feet [31A25461] Search | Browse Iconclass
- inscription [49L8] Search | Browse Iconclass
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