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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.

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NON APTUS EST REGNO DEI[1]

He is not fit for the kingdom of God

A man is ploughing a field with a plough drawn behind two horses.
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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.

Notes:

1.  Luke 9:62

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