
Poëtica ad Dionysium Lambinum.[1]
Poetry to Denys Lambin
Iray-je poursuyvant les choses serieuses,
Puis que j’escris celles qui sont joyeuses?
Rien n’est particulier, le tout est imité,
Et dans le faux je mesle verité.
Puis dans la verité les fables je recelle,
A celle fin qu’on me voye plus belle.
Ce que j’ay proposé n’est point par ordre mis:
Car tel langage entre tous m’est permis. Link to an image of this page [D4v p56]Je n’ay forme, ny robbe, & toutesfois entiere
Je n’ay deffaut de drap ou de matiere
J’ay le moyen plus grand de tost me revestir,
Je suis sans art, & si je puis bastir,
Je ne suis point à moy, n’estant ce que veux estre,
L’esprit divin dans mon corps est le maistre.
1. Denis Lambin: humanist, editor of Classical texts in Paris (d. 1572).
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