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Ce sot laissant la tresvive fonteine
Se cave un puits, qui l’eau ne peut tenir,
Dont tout le mieux qui lui puisse venir,
C’est que son temps il pert avec sa peine.
Ainsi pour vray l’entreprinse est tresvaine
De ceux qui vont hors Christ chercher recours.
Christ est la source & la vraye fonteine.
Lui seul est tout, d’autre n’avons secours.

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A naked figure pissing in the cente piece of a fountain. The basin of the fountain is supported by animal legs. Beside the fountain a man digs a hole.
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Hic puteum fodit, à tergo cùm lympidus adstet
Et purae, & semper fons salientis aquae.
Non aliter falluntur & hi, qui aliunde salutem
Sperant, quàm à Christo fonte salutifero.

This man is digging a well, when behind him there is a clear spring of pure and ever-flowing water. In the same way they are deceived who hope for salvation from anywhere other than from Christ, the spring of salvation.

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