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Frustrà: quis stabilem figat in orbe gradum? [9]


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IX.
Frustrà: quis stabilem figat in orbe gradum?
HVc ades, elatas qui tollis in æthera cristas,
Plenaque ventoso pectora folle geris.
Huc ades, aggestum patulis qui faucibus aurum
Rimaris nimias Tantalus inter opes.
Huc ades, Idaliæ cui torrent viscera flammæ,
Cæcaque vipereus corda sagittat Amor.
Disce tuos luctus: votorum è culmine præceps
Decidit, ancipiti qui locat orbe pedem.
Nil ætas, nil forma iuuat, nil fulua metalli
Lamina, nil forti parta trophæa manu.
Inde cliens Pluti, laudum præco inde suarum,
Multus & AEgysthus, multaque Phædra ruit.
Ipsa suis veniat variata superbia plumis;
Hinc malè lapsurum corpus in astra libret.
Ipse adeò Plutus præceps eat, ipse Cupido:
Ille grauis nummis, arcubus ille minax.
Nempe gradu stabili consistere nescius orbis,
Ingenitâ sese mobilitate rotat.

Non ita sisyphiæ pondus reuolubile molis
Vertitur,è summo cùm petit imaiugo.
Vis stabili firmare loco vestigia? Christvs
Est petra quadra, quadro fige pedem lapide.

Gardez vous de monter, esceruelé Päon:
Ce Plute fracassè, ce culbutant garçon
Crient: fuyez, fuyez du Monde l'inconstance,
Si tu ne veux courir risque de decadence.

Wellusten / eer' en goedt
En is maer ebb' en vloedt:
Men siet het al vergaen;
'T is quaet op bollen staen.

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