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Fertilité dommageable.
XXXIX.
Làs moy miserable noyer,
Suis je pas malheureux de vivre?
Je rens fruict, & pour mon loyer,
Coups de tous costés on me livre:
La plante qui rien ne delivre,
N’a pas tant que moy de douleurs.
Ainsi, pour vouloir vertu suyvre,
Plusieurs accroissent leurs malheurs.[1]
commentaires.
Le noyer se complaind de ce qu’on l’a
planté pres
d’un chemin public, ou il sert de jouet
aux passas [=passans]
, qui
ne cessent de luy jecter des pierres, luy rompre ses
tendres rameaux avec des bastons, luy entamer son
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escorce, & le tourmenter de toutes parts, disant que
plustost on devroit faire ce traictement aux arbres
steriles & infructueux. Il semble,
comme il est vray,
que sa fertilité luy cause tout ce dommage & tout
ce detriment. Il advient ordinairement que les Prin-
ces, & autres qui ont superiorité traictent plus indi-
gnement ceux de qui ils perçoyvent plus de commo-
dités & de services, qu’ils ne font pas les autres.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.3, see also Aesop, Fables 152.
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