
DESPENSE, ET GAIN.
Lle lievre est
beste ayant double Nature
Multiplier aimant sa geniture.
En mesme temps porte, allaicte, & conçoit,
Met sur le faix: & le masle reçoit.
Ne souffrant point son ventre sans semence.[1]
Qu’en le vuydant, l’emplir ne recommence.
Exemple à tous, que qui veult bien despendre.
Il doibt aussi à bien gaigner entendre.
Tant que jamais ne s’espuise la source.
Mais qu’en vuydant il emplisse la bourse.
Et que tousjours en pourvoyant, pourpense
Par plus grand guain recouvrer la despense.
1. On the prodigious breeding powers of rabbits, see Pliny, Natural History 10.63.179.
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