344 PROVERBS. 



Amongst the other striking compositions in this collection are those which 

 relate to the following proverbs (Fig. 291) : "Tant va le pot a 1'eau, qu'il 

 brise " (The pitcher may go to the well once too often) ; " Mai sur mal n'est 

 pas sante " (Two wrongs do not make a right) ; " En forgeant on devient 

 forgeron ; " "A petit mercier petit panier." Each proverb in this collection 

 has a rhymed quatrain explaining the drawing. The inscription in verse 

 which is placed at the foot of Constable Bourbon's portrait informs us that 

 this collection, commenced during his lifetime, was not completed until after 

 his death, so that it is a sort of monument raised by the poet and the artist to 

 his memory. 



Fig. 293. Token of Michel Fezandat, Printer at Paris (1552), with a Proverbial Device 



attributed to Kabelais. 



