
EN PLIANT IL PLIE.
NOn pour soy, mais à fin que son office prompt
Face ployer autruy, l’ozier mol on employe,
Qui se laisse courber, à fin que soubs luy ploye
Le cep, qui gauchissant sans cela se corrompt.
Ceux qui, pour maintenir leur querelle, voudront
Que contre leur Seigneur la justice on desploye
Roidiront sa fureur: & se faisant la proye
De son aigre despit, eux-mesme se perdront.
Prudent est celuy là qui ployant la justice
De son bon droit, à fin que son Prince il flechisse,
Appaise par devoirs son courroux irrité.
Celuy qui peut beaucoup, aysément ne tolere
Qu’un petit le bravant, n’espreuve sa colere;
Et ne porte le faix de sa temerité

Ad Stephanum Saugetum Vesuntinum.[1]
En pliant, il plie.
IMplicat, & prohibet nodis ut flexile vimen
Pampineis vitem luxuriare comis:
Sic prudentis erit, placandi Principis aures
Cedendo officiis flectere, & obsequiis.
As the flexible osier encircles and with bonds prevents the vine from growing too abundantly, with stalks sprouting with tendrils, so it will be the function of the wise man to give way and, by obedient service, to turn the ears of the ruler he wants to placate.
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- apron [41D2321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown [41D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Greek script [49L13] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs (with NAME) [25G4(WHEAT)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudenza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Prudentia (Prudence) as Roman personification [96A5(PRUDENTIA)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Audacity, Temerity; 'Audacia' (Ripa) [54A82] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Disagreement, Discord; 'Discordia' (Ripa) [54EE31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ears [31A2213] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fury; 'Furore', 'Furore implacabile', 'Furore & Rabbia', 'Furore superbo & Indomito' (Ripa) [56E3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Humility; 'Humiltà' (Ripa) [57A64] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Justice; 'Forza alla giustitia sottoposta', 'Giustitia', 'Giustitia retta', 'Giustitia rigorosa', 'Impietà e violenza soggetta alla giustitia', (Ripa) [59C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Obedience; 'Obedienza' (Ripa) [53B5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Persuasion; 'Persuasione' (Ripa) [54C21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Rage, Anger [56E2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- reeds, rushes ~ crafts and industries «« KEY (442) TO 47 crafts and industries [47(+442)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruler, sovereign [44B1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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