
JEUNESSE PERDUE.
Le Saulx perdant
semence, & fruyct es eaux,
Qui est nourry entre ployans roseaux:
Est un Enfant, que nourrit le
fol Pere,
En affluence, & richesse prospere.
A celle fin qu’en mignardises folles
Coule son temps, & en delices molles.
Entre Flateurs, qui luy semblent souvent
Bien estre amys.
mais tournans ą tout vent.
Ainsi en fleur de l’eage, qui commence,
Ayant perdu la fleur & la semence,
Par se baigner es biens, qui l’ont destruict,
Et refroidy: Jamais ne faict bon fruyct.
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