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auëjous,
Que bet parla dits-om
bouque n'escorge.
XCVII.
Abise plan que toun cousseil ourdoune,
Qua subertout nou sien
jouënes gens.
Que nan vsat lou mestié prou de temps,
Ab so de bieil
haras la soupe boune.
XCVIII.
Et noui ya eu mo[~u], ni Moussur, ni Madame,
Que nage vn cop
deffortunes, é maus,
Que nous em touts malaustrucs, é mourtaus
E

Diu castigue an aquet que mes ame.
XCIX.
Si lou machant per vn temps s'aprouheite,
Ome de ben nou ten
estounes pas,
Espere vn pauc, qu'a la fin tu beiras,
Que d'vn
machant à vn boun bei ya aleite.
C.
Gouerdet quan hés quine perde ques sië,
De marmura coum vn
desesperat,
Si Diu sa pres aquo que t'aoué dat
Dits coume Iob, soun
noum benasit sië.
AMEN.

L'AVTHEVR AVX GALANS
Hommes & Poëtes Gimontois.
SONNET.
Ie ne veux, ni ne puis me taire auecque vous,
Qui succez au berceau
la bien disante Muse,
Et quoy qu'autre subject mes iunes ans amuse,

Ie veux nourrir mon Ame en vostre laict si doux.
Ce n'est pas que
ie sois enuieus ou ialous,
Mais mon ame ne peut endurcie & pierreuse,

Venir aupres de vous, comme aupres de Meduse,
Ayant l'esprit au
vers si viste, si fougous.
Vous aimez tendrement vostre Muse
Gasconne,
Qui docte riche, & belle, en vostre vers resonne,
Et se
fait escouter au langage voisin.
Ie l'ayme, mais non pas pour allumer
des flammes:
Mais pour remedier aux erreurs de nos ames,
Et me
dire en effect, d'ame, & corps, medecin.
Ad eosdem Auctoris Distichon.

Semper honos, virtus, vestris celebrata tropheà
Vestrorum applausus
pandet amica suos.

[Errata:
Stanzas XLIX and LV are partly illegible, possibly due to physical
damage. In the printed book, LV is on the outside of the last leaf of
signature B, while XLIX is in the same position on the inside of the
leaf.
Dirigit Infanos vbi lex Censoria sensus,
so in text: Insanos?
Caoüaretez, trichots, miregadous,
text illegible: "mi" conjectural
E huch l'esclau d'vn d'angerous passatje.
so in text: dangerous?
Si tu ten bas per marquats, ou per heires,
so in text: t'en?]
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