
προδοσέταιρος exosus.
He who betrays a friend is hated
L’aveugle amour n’a point aucune cognoissance
De ce qui est utile, & de cela qui nuit:
Il n’a point de raison: la fureur le conduit
Tant qu’il aye tout perdu par son insuffisance.
Qui osta à Nison la royalle puissance,
Et qui faict Roy Minos, sinon le vain deduict Link to an image of this page [D7r p61]De l’amour de sa fille[1], qui subit le seduict,
Et qui pour tout cela n’en eust la recompense?
Ceux qui vont maintenant l’ennemi du pays,
Et qui postposent tout à leur coeur impudique,
Ceux-la sont pourchassez, desprisez & hais:
Quel espoir peut donner la trahison inique
D’un traistre à l’ennemy qui est espouvanté,
Dont la mere voudroit ne l’avoir enfanté?
1. The story of Scylla of Megara, daughter of King Nisus: she fell in love with the invader, Minos of Crete, and cut off her father’s supernatural hair to prove her love. She was changed into a seabird, and chased away by her father. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 8.
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