
Comme la ronce, ensuyvant sa nature,
Va derechef racine en terre prendre,
Tout homme aussi, terrestre creature,
Ne peut de soy plus haut qu’en terre tendre:
Combien que Dieu assez luy face entendre
Que d’icy bas ne vient rien que martyre.
Mais au bien est l’esprit si foible & tendre,
Que la chair forte en bas tousjours le tire.

EX NATURA
By nature
xlvii.
Natus humo despectat humum, & terrestria toto
Corde petens, coelo quaerere nescit opes.
Nempe rubo similis: nam, cłm surrexit in altum:
Radices summa fronde recurvat humo.
He who is born of the earth contemplates the earth and seeking earthly things with his whole heart does not know how to seek treasure in heaven. To be sure he is like the bramble; for when it has grown up high it turns its roots back from the leafy foliage above to the earth.
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