
GRAND, ET VAIN LABOUR.
Le jeu de paulme entre
tous aultres jeux,
Le corps exerce, & l’esprit, & les yeux.
Car en jouant: le corps prent action.
Et l’esperit diverse affection.
A un beau coup de joie l’on tressault.
Puys par courroux on jure, quand on fault.
On plaingt, on rit, la craincte, & l’esperance
Tiennent suspens le Joueur en balance.
Qui va, & vient: faict virades, & tours,
Passe, & repasse, & faict mouvemens lourdz.
Et brief il prend grande sueur, & peine
A un Esteuf chose petite, & vaine.
Pour, à la fin de s’estre tant lassé:
N’avoir rien faict, sinon le temps passé.
Monstrant exemple: Estre Follie, ou rage
faire labeur, d’ond il
ne reste ouvrage.
Ainsi aucuns font contre la sentence
De Ciceron, au tracté de Prudence.
En employant en choses inutiles
Tresgrandz labeurs, & oeuvres difficiles.[1]
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- 'jeu de Paume' [43C4153] Search | Browse Iconclass
- loggia, verandah, porch [41A381] Search | Browse Iconclass
- requirements, necessaries ~ sports and games (with NAME) [43C(+4)(racket)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- six persons [31A(+76)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries (with NAME) [47D8(ROPE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of) Cicero [98B(CICERO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Exercise; 'Essercitio' (Ripa) [54D12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- eyes [31A2212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fear, Dread; 'Paura', 'Timidità o Timore', 'Timore' (Ripa) [56DD1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) [52AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Frivolity [57AA66] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hope; 'Speranza', 'Speranza delle fatiche' (Ripa) [56D1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Industriousness, Assiduity; 'Assiduità', 'Industria', 'Zelo' (Ripa) [54A11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mind, spirit [31B] Search | Browse Iconclass
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