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Le prince[1]
Ainsi qu’au chef sont yeulx, aureilles, bouche,
Pour regarder, pour ouyr & parler:
Ainsi le chef & prince sans reprouche
D’un oeil prudent doibt sur les siens veiller:
De les congnoistre il se doibt travailler,
Ouyr leurs plaidz, & puis donner sentence:
Mais quand le chef ne se peult conseiller,
Les membres lors tumbent en decadence.
Notes:
1. See also the fable of the stomach and the parts of the body, Aesop, Fables, no. 159; here Corrozet substitutes the chef, the ‘head’ for the stomach, surely due to the double nature of the word chef, possibly also in reference to the Biblical parable from Romans 12:4.
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- Judgement, Discrimination; 'Giuditio' (Ripa) [52A52] Search | Browse Iconclass
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