PROVERBS. 



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proverbs illustrated with great ingenuity. He whom the artist has sur- 

 nanied " Margaritas ante poreos " (a proverb taken from the Old Testament), is 

 represented by a herd of pigs upsetting a basket of flowers (Fig. 290), with 

 the French distich 



rai-ons qui sont mal entendues 

 Kcssemblunt flours u pourceaux estendues." 



" Je snis Fauvean qui desire 4 toute heure 

 Eetre r-,i i i ii, ct derant et darriere. 

 De m'eBtriller qui ne sect 1 1 maniore 

 A coup pert temps et trop en vain labeure." 



Fig. 292. Drawings of Proverbs, Adages, &c. Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (No. 4,316, 

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



