342 



PROVERBS. 



Fig. 290. Drawings of Proverbs, Adages, &c. Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (No. 4,316, 

 Fonda La Valliere, 44). In the National Library, Paris. 



executed by the Constable de Bourbon, at the beginning of Francis I.'s 

 reign, and now preserved in the Paris National Library (Fonds La Valliere, 

 Department of Manuscripts). This handsome book contains sixty-one 



" Dieu veult souventesfois permettre 

 L'homme perir, qui dist : Je veulx, 



Quoy qu'il en pcut advenir, mettre 

 La charette devant lea boeufs." 



Fig. 291. Drawings of Proverbs, Adages, &c. Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (No. 4,316, 

 Fonds La v alliere, 44). In the National Library, Paris. 



