
Tempestiva prosunt.
The seasonable is useful.
Errico Memmio.[1]
Tous les ans le serpent sortant au renouveau
En un pertuis estroict laisse la vieille peau:
Que si le poursuyvant tu l’arrestes ŕ l’heure
Seulement en tes mains ceste peau te demeure:
Estant ainsi frustré chez toy tu reviendras,
Et pour la theriaque un serpent ne tiendras,
Il faut donc que celuy qui poursuit quelque chose,
Que la cause & le temps & l’heure il se propose:
Car l’heure apportera & pourra descouvrir
Cela qu’on aura sceu en mille ans recouvrir.
Chasque chose a son temps, l’hyver ensuit l’automne: Link to an image of this page [I5v p138]L’esté brusle les fleurs que le printemps nous donne,
Les fleurs, les bleds, les vins, & les frimats gelez
Par les quatre saisons aux hommes sont donnez.
1. Henri de Mesmes, civil servant, humanist and numismaticist, from a major Parisian family of legislators and diplomats.
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