

XLII.
SImplicité, selon le temps qui court,
Est des meschants, reputée pour vice:
Et mesmement entre flateurs de court,
Qui sont plongez au gouffre de malice,
Un homme simple est reputé pour nice.
Qui ne veult estre aujourd’huy cavilleux
Sera tenu pauvre, meschant pouilleux:
Pour se vestir n’aura ne draps ne linges.
Qui suyt la court, en ce temps perilleux,
Il sera l’Asne, estant parmy les Cinges.
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- ass, donkey [46C13142] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds [25F3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- monkeys, apes [25F22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Danger; 'Pericolo' (Ripa) [54DD51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Flattery; 'Adulatione' (Ripa) [57AA6121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- insects (with NAME) [25F711(LOUSE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Poverty; 'Povertà', 'Povertà del doni', 'Povertà in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa) [55BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- present [23A32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- quarrel, argument [33B1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- royal household; courtiers, retinue, train [44B152] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Simplicity; 'Simplicità' (Ripa) [57A642] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Sluggishness, Inertia; 'Dapocaggine', 'Pigritia' (Ripa) [54AA11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Unscrupulousness [57AA3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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