
Bons ne doyvent craindre les riches.
CI.
Mes voisins Maire & Subbardus,[1]

Ont ja tant haut edifié,
Qu’ils rendront mes manoirs perdus:
Car mon jour ont rarifié:
Dont ay besoing
d’estre affié,
De Calaïs & de Zetés.
Forts pour Harpyes deffier,[2]
Et pour chasser malaises tels.
commentaires.
Alciat se plaind de deux siens
voisins, Maire &
Subbard, lesquels fort riches qu’ils estoyent, bastis-
soyent si haut & si mal à propos pour luy, qu’ils luy
estouppoyent presque tout son jour:
& dit que, mise-
rable qu’il est, il n’est pas moins affligé & travaillé
par eux, que Phinee le fut autresfois par les Harpyes:
disant davantage, qu’ils l’eussent ja jecté hors de sa
maison, si son integrité, & ses
vertueux deporte-
ments ne l’en eussent garenti,
comme Phinee fut ga-
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renti des Harpyes par Zetes & Calaïs. Ce Phinee,
Roy d’Arcadie, à l’instigation de sa seconde femme,
creva les yeux à ses propre enfans du
premier lict,
dont les Dieux furent tellement irrités, qu’ils le ren-
dirent aussi aveugle, & d’abondant luy
envoyerent
à toutes heures des Harpyes, oiseaux rapineux &
puants, qui n’nt de femme que la teste. Ces Harpyes
le travailloyent incessament, luy ravissant ses vian-
des, ou les luy souillant & empuantissant. En fin,
comme Jason, ce vaillant Prince, passoit par là avec
les Argonautes, ayans esté fort humainement receus
par Phinee, pour recompense il
luy envoyerent Ze-
tes & Calaïs, enfans de Boreas, braves archers &
portans aisles, à fin qu’ils chassassent ces harpyes hors
des terres de Phinee: ce qu’ils firent.
1. Marius, the typical self-made man (referring to humble origins of Gaius Marius, the consul and general). Subbardus, possibly ‘Mr. Thick’.
2. The Harpies, symbols of injustice, were carrying off or soiling Phineus’ food so that he could not eat. He was delivered by Zetes and Calais, the winged sons of the North Wind and Oreithyia. See e.g. Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.711-7.4.
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