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Preciosum quod utile.
What is useful is valuable
Ad Achillem Maphaeum.[1]
Le commun va prisant cela qui vient de loing,
Et que dessus la mer on porte avec grand soing: Link to an image of this page [L4r p167]Mais c’est une folie & digne de risee:
Car pour l’utilité la licorne est prisee.
Ceux qui ont entrepris de donner le venin
Sont descouverts, meslant la corne dans le vin.
Ainsi les Rois l’ont prise aux païs plus estrange
Et de coust pour ce bien est digne de louange.
Notes:
1. Achilles Maphaeus is unidentified, possibly Achilles Maffei, an antiquarian and collector.
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