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Tardè venere bubulci.
The herdsmen have come too late
L’homme[1] ja vieil trop tard cerche moyen
Pour tromper ceux dont-il retient le bien:
Car il devoit s’applicquer estant jeune
A bien sçavoir resister à fortune,
Et non songeart sans eslever sa veüe
Cercher ce poinct dans l’obscur de la nue.
Je ne veux pas toutesfois empescher
Que l’on ne puisse en toute áage cercher
Cela qui est digne de la science:
Mais qu’un vieillard qui a tromper pourpense
Est faict la fable au commun & vulgaire.
En la jeunesse il faut donc si bien faire Link to an image of this page [K1v p146]Que l’homme apprenne à façonner ses moeurs
Pour en vieillesse eviter les malheurs.
1. Strepsiades, a character from Aristophanes’ Clouds.
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