Perriere, 1539.
So industry, diligence, with their attendant advantages,—negligence, idleness, with their disadvantages, are scarcely alluded to, and but incidentally praised or blamed.
We may take one of Perriere’s Emblems, the 101st of Les Bons Engins, as our example, to show rather divergence than agreement,—or, at any rate, a different way of treating the subject.
“En ce pourtraict pouuez veoir diligence,
Tenant en main le cornet de copie:
Elle triumphé̩[e/]̩ en grand magnificence:
Car de paressé̩[e/]̩ one ne fut assoupie:
Dessoubz ses piedz tiẽt faminé̩[e/]̩ acroupie
Et attachéé̩[e/]̩ en grand captiuité: