
Importuna adulatio.
Improper flattery
Alexandre qui peut tout le monde dompter
Fut jadis estimé le fils de Jupiter,
Dont le peintre Apelles flateur outre mesure
Luy mist un fouldre en main, faisant sa pourtraicture.
Mais ce fut beaucoup trop, & mesme il fut repris Link to an image of this page [C3v p38]D’avoir dessus les dieux follement entrepris.
Lysippe qui d’arain avoit faict sa semblance,
Dist qu’il valoit bien mieux luy bailler une lance.
Comme estant plus seant à un Roy de l’avoir.
Cesar victorieux ne veut pas recevoir
L’honneur dont la grandeur d’un royaume s’augmente,
Ains du nom d’Empereur sans plus il se contente.
L’homme est espouvanté quand il oit le tonnerre,
Le foudre vient du ciel mais il faut sur la terre
Que le Prince ou le Roy soit doux & gratieux,
Il doibt plus tost avoir le halecret des dieux,
Et de Pallas aussi la plus divine lance,
Qui est le vray escu de doctrine & vaillance.
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- armour [45C22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Jupiter: thunderbolt [92B18(THUNDERBOLT)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- brushes ~ implements of painter [48C5153] Search | Browse Iconclass
- container of paper, cardboard: bag, carton [41A778] Search | Browse Iconclass
- easel [48C5151] Search | Browse Iconclass
- farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- lance, spear (symbol of sovereignty) [44B1922] Search | Browse Iconclass
- lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt [2600] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking over the shoulder [31A247] Search | Browse Iconclass
- male persons from classical history (with NAME) non-aggressive activities of person from classical history [98B(LYSIPPUS)5] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing) [31A26211(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- painter at work, in his studio [48C511] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- picture, painting [48C514] Search | Browse Iconclass
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