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Res humanae in summo, declinant.
At their height, human affairs decline
Lors que Phebus est au plus hault des cieux
La neige fond sous son oeil radieux:
Ainsi fortune au plus haut advancee Link to an image of this page [D2r p51]Sans y penser est souvent renversee:
Et tout cela que la mort peut dompter
N’est suffisant pour tousjours persister.
Bien que les Rois aux grand [=grands]
palais demeurent,
Si faut-il bien qu’en la parfin ils meurent.
La mort esgale à chacun se conduit:
Un riche Roy comme un pauvre elle suit.
Et vers chacun plus subit elle vole
Que ne faict pas une viste parole.
A chasque vent nous nous sentons poussez,
Et plus subit nous sommes renversez
Qu’à la chaleur d’une grande lumiere
Ne se fletrist la rose journaliere.
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