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Virtute duce.
With Virtue to guide us
Ad Bartholomaeum Marantham.[1]
Ceux-la qui ont prins la cure
D’esclaircir de la nature
Les difficiles secrets
Avec les raisons encloses,
Ceux-la de toutes les choses
Sont remerqueurs de plus pres.
La flamme est une fumee,
Ce disent-ils, allumee,
Ce qui est bien approuvé
Par le philosophe sage,
Qui curieux, de tout aage Link to an image of this page [M3r p181]L’a bien souvent esprouvé.
Ceux qui ont prins leur naissance
De maison sans cognoissance
Et de parens non congneuz
Resemblent à la fumee
Qui avec la renommee
Sont pour vertueux tenus.
Ceste esclairante lumiere
Leur donne noblesse entiere
Et leur augmente l’honneur:
Ainsi ceux qui en leur vie
Ont leur maison anoblie
Sont compagnons de lueur.
1. Bartolomeo Maranta, Neapolitan doctor, botanist, and poet, worked as physician for the Duke of Mantua, then built a famous botanical garden in Rome (d. 1571).
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