
Ce charretier monstre, à sa contenance,
Avoir le coeur ailleurs qu’au labourage.
Le regarder derriere desavance,
Comme a veu Lot en sa femme mal-sage.
Celuy avoit un semblable courage,
Qui dit, Je vueil, pere, en ta vigne aller,
Et n’y alla. Voyla quel est l’usage
Du mondain sage en son dissimuler.

NON APTUS EST REGNO DEI[1]
He is not fit for the kingdom of God
xxxviii.
Obliquos ducis, non recto tramite, sulcos:
Tam leviter coeptum mens vaga curat opus.
Eia age, conversos oculos intende labori:
Aptus eris coeli sede tenere locum.
You plough your furrows awry, not with a straight course: a distracted mind gives such slight attention to the work he has begun. Come then, turn focussed eyes to your labour: and you will be fit to have a place in the heavenly abode.
1. Luke 9:62
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