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Impossible.
LXXXIIII.
Il est un milier de negoces,
Où lon ne peut remede mettre.
Et quoy qu’ardemment t’en courrouces,
Si n’en feras tu ja le maistre.
Parquoy si tu quiers hors blasme estre,
Ne prens peine à blanchir un More.
En la nuict ne peut clarté naistre.
Un vice inveteré demeure.[1]
commentaires.
Tous les Ethiopiens sont noirs de leur naissance: car
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ceste region là est si prochaine du Soleil, qu’elle en
est comme bruslee. Partant, quelque peine qu’on
prenne à les laver, on perd son temps: car ils demeu-
rent tousjours noirs. Nul aussi ne sçauroit esclairer
les tenebres de la nuict: il est impossible. Cest embleme est
escrit contre ceux qui s’opiniastrent à vouloir faire
des choses qui ne sont pas en leur puissance.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 11.428. See also Aesop, Fables 11; Erasmus, Adagia 350, Aethiopen lavas.
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