
PARFAITE EST L’AMITIE,
qui vit apres la mort.[1]
BIen que l’aage fuytif ait despouyllé d’honneur,
De verdure, & de suc, & d’ame tout ensemble
Cest Orme qui languit, le cep ne dessassemble
Des remeaux effeuyllé son pampre bourgeonneur.
L’amitié qui de nous approche tout bon heur
Symbolise avec eux; & d’effect leur ressemble:
Car, ores qu’a l’amy son amy la mort emble,
Elle ne prive point d’affection le coeur.
A l’Orme desseiché la vigne s’entrelasse:
L’amy son amy nud, pauvre et chetif embrasse:
Et croit d’affection, ou croit l’affliction.
Petite est la vertu qui au vivant assiste
D’une foible amitié, mais celle qui persiste
Mesmes apres la mort, tient la perfection.

Ad Domitium Fainum Veronensem.[2]
Amicitiae immortali.
Immortal friendship
EXigua est virtus (dum munus munere pensat)
Viventi sacram non violare fidem.
Integra sed vivit, quaecunque à morte superstes:
Hanc veram dici iudico amicitiam.
There is little virtue [while service repays service], in not violating the sacred faith to someone who is living. But whenever surviving death it [faith] lives undiminished, I judge that to be called true friendship.
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