
Πολυπραγμοσύνη.[1]
On the noble art of minding your own business.
Le singe est pris souvent dans les laqs qu’il sçait faire,
Lors que de l’homme il vient les lassets contrefaire:
Ainsi celuy qui vient sans raison s’enquester
Faict une faute grande & se sent arrester
Aux filets qu’à autruy il avoit pensé tendre, Link to an image of this page [D5r p57]Par avoir trop voulu folement entreprendre.
Que sert il de vouloir se contrefaire ainsi,
Et pour toute la peine en avoir du soucy?
Car bien que pour cela l’on ayt en recompense,
Si est-ce qu’il en vient en fin plus de nuisance.
Du pauvre cordonnier le singe mal faisant
S’estrangla de soy-mesme en le contrefaisant.
Conduis toy librement en ce que tu peux faire,
Te temperant si bien que quand tu veux complaire
A ton pauvre prochain & luy aider du tien,
Que paravant tu sois plus soigneux de ton bien.
1. Greek Πολυπραγμοσύνη is the abstract noun for overweening busybodiness.
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