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Amour de soymesme.
LXXI.
Pourquoy te plaisoit tant, ô Narcisse, ta forme,
Puis qu’en fleur tout soudain il faut qu’on te transforme?[1]
Souvent l’amour de soy les gents doctes transporte,
Nul bien il ne leur fait, ains blasme il leur apporte:
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Car au lieu d’insister en la methode ancienne,
Chacun embrasse & suit la fantasie sienne.
Commentaires.
Nous sommes appris par cest embleme, que l’a-
mour de soymesme est tresdangereux. Ceste philautie
nous rend enflés, envieux, audacieux, faineants, &
nous entretient en nostre ignorance. Celuy qui se louë
soymesme, n’est pas bien veu de ses voisins. Ce vice
sied mal en un chacun, mais principalement aux
nourrissons des Muses.
1. For the story of Narcissus, see Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.344ff. On the flower, see Pliny, Natural History, 21.75.128: “there are two kinds of narcissus... The leafy one ... makes the head thick and is called narcissus from narce (‘numbness’), not from the boy in the story.” (cf. ‘narcotic’).
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