
Usus, non lectio prudentes facit.
Use, not reading merely reading creates sagacious people
Je n’enseigne tousjours, ne feuillette point tant,
Le grand nombre ne faict, les hommes venir sages,
Mais le ressouvenir des plus doctes passages,
Par un ferme sçavoir, rend leur esprit content.
Le libraire trop chiche en a grande abondance,
Et si pour tout cela il n’acquiert la science.
Tu as beau nous virer & relire cent fois,
Si tu ne t’en souviens & n’en monstre l’usage
Tu en perdras ta peine & ton apprentissage
Mais, Fulve, pourautant que cecy tu cognois,
Tu as estudié dans les livres antiques,
Dont le fruict va coulant parmy noz Republiques. Link to an image of this page [E2r p67]Tu en retiens chez toy un bon nombre parfaict,
Dont tu remets les uns par ta grand’ diligence
En leur forme premiere, & de telle ordonnance
Je me tiens tellement content & satisfaict,
Qu’aumoins pourrons nous bien en ceste sorte faire,
Que nous proficterons à ceux qui n’en ont guere.
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