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Pro ignotis sumere laborem.
Labour undertaken for the nameless.
Georgio Tanner.[1]
C’est grand’ folie d’endurer
Pour peu de chose grande peine
Et pour une esperance vaine
Sur l’inconstance s’asseurer.
Pourquoy jadis fut tant requise
Heleine, & Ilium conquise?
Peu de Gregois qui par dix ans
Furent campez en grand souffrance
Pour qu’ils perdirent leur temps:
Encor qu’ils eurent pour leur proye Link to an image of this page [M7v p190]Toutes les richesses de Troye.
Or nous pour le peu de loisir
Qui reste pour encore vivre,
Il faut regarder de poursuivre
Un moyen pour faire plaisir
Et quelque honneur à la patrie:
Ainsi sera bonne la vie.
1. Georg Tanner, humanist and jurist.
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