“Tel rit quand on le preche, et craint la raillerie.”
“Some laugh at sermous yet fear ridicule.”
“Telle jadis Carthage
Vit sur ses murs detruits Marius malheureux,
Et ces deux grands debris se consolaient entr’eux,”
Abbe Delille. Les Jardins, Chant IV.
“Thus Marius stood
On the battlements crumbling of Carthage of old,
And these two mighty ruins each other consoled.”
“(Mais) tenant toutefois pour le salut humain
En une main le fleau, l’emplastre en l’autre main.”
Salluste du Bartas. Le SeptUme Jour de la Scvianie. (Ed., p. 190.)
“God’s loving kindness all mankind enfolds;
One hand the scourge and one the plaster holds.”
“Tes vers, en tout pays, sont cités d’4ge en 4ge.”
“In every land men quote thy lines from age to age.”
“Tiens-toi à table honnestement,
Et t’abille de vestement
En tel atour qu’on ne s’en mocque,
Car on cognoist l’oeuf à la coque.”
Christine de Pisan. Diets Moraux a son Fits.
“Bear thee at table decently,
And let thy garb so fashioned be
That none shall mock, for by its shell
The nature of the egg we tell.”
“Tiers hoir ne jouist de chose mal acquise.”
BusTACHE Deschamps. Balades de Moralitez, CCLXXIX.
“Des choses mal acquises le tiers hoir ne jouira.”
RABBiiAis. Pantagmel, III., 1.
“Of ill-gotten gains the third heir shall ne’er have enjoyment.”
“Tote rien se tome en declin,
Tot chiet, tot meurt, tot vait a fin:
Horn muert, fer use, fust porrist,
Tur font, mur chiet, rose flaistrist,
Cheval trebusche, drap viesist:
Tot ovre fet od mainz perist.”
Robert Wage. Le Roman de Rou, line 65.
“All things to their decline do tend,
All falls, expires, comes to its end:
Man dies, iron rusts, wood rots away,
Tower sinks, wall falls, rose has its day.
Horse stumbles, cloth wears out apace,
No work of hands leaves lasting trace.”
