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Studium & labor vincit.
Zeal, or rather hard work prevails
Ioanni Baptistae Pignae Ferrariensi.[1]
Ceux qui sont à l’entour de ce vase à deux anses
Tirent à qui mieux mieux: les uns au costé droict
Sont & forts & accords ne craignans les nuisances:
Mais les plus paresseux tirent à l’autre endroict,
Les enfans les vieillards, & ceux qui n’ont envie
De souffrir les travaux compaignons de la vie.
Pour dire veritè toutes choses sont prises
En une & autre sorte, & ceux qui sont menez Link to an image of this page [L6r p171]Par le desir d’honneur mettent leurs entreprises
Au comble de soubhait: mais les plus estonnez
Qui sans soing de leur bien demeurent en souffrance
Ne tireront jamais le vase par son anse.
Ceux donc ont emporté l’honneur & la victoire
Lesquels par le labeur ne se sont estonnez,
Et les autres tousjours demeurent sans memoire.
A bon droict te sont donc les honneurs ordonnez
Par Alphonse, qui t’a esleu son secretaire
Pourveu que des neuf seurs tu ne laisse l’affaire.
1. Giovanni Battista Pigna: professor of rhetoric and Greek; historian and secretary at the Este court at Ferrara, particularly Duke Alfonso II, mentioned in the text; (d. c. 1575).
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