
Grammaticae, Dialecticae, Rhetoricae, Historiae differentia.
The difference between grammar, dialectic, rhetoric and history
Ad Carolum Sigonium.[1]
Trois dames toutes trois diverses en habits
S’appuyent pesamment dessus une pucelle.
Celle la qui est nue est l’Histoire nouvelle
En qui de tous les temps la garde & soing fut mis.
Elle donne l’honneur ensuyvant verité,
A ceux qui ont bien faict ell’ n’est point affectee,
Ell’ laisse aux survivans de la chose passee
Le simple jugement ayant tout racompté.
Derriere elle, se void Rhetorique jasarde
Qui d’une langue heureuse est plaidant les procès: Link to an image of this page [I8r p143]En habits coulourez elle faict maints excez,
Et a gaigner tousjours sa cause elle prend garde.
Elle a la main ouverte, & si tient une picque,
Afin de nous monstrer que pressant doucement
Sans contraincte elle prend le plus honnestement,
Ainsi qu’a bien parler tousjours elle s’applicque.
Dialectique apres est assez mal vestue,
Cerchant au fond d’un puits la belle Verité.
Depuis qu’elle a vaincu elle tient fermeté,
Et tousjours jusqu’au bout sa force est maintenue.
Elle poinct, elle lie, & tousjours par raison
Elle conduist son faict: mais toutes ne font gueres
Au proufict des humains, sans avoir la grammaire,
Qui est le fondement de toute leur maison.
L’histoire est comme un chien ayant au doz des aisles,
Rhetorique est Chimere, & Logique est semblable
Au Sphynx que lon disoit estre un monstre admirable,
La vierge les soustient, & les rend immortelles.
1. Carlo Sigonio: philologist and humanist from Modena (d. 1584).
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