L'avant-naissance de Claude Dolet

Chapter 7: Au Lecteur Francoys.

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A collection of didactic addresses and occasional verse offering paternal counsel for a newly born son, combining religious exhortation with practical guidance. It urges firm faith in God, the cultivation of virtue, avoidance of envy and excess, prudent management of inherited wealth, and steady pursuit of learning to comprehend nature and resist fear. Presented as precepts and poetic encomium, the material mixes moral instruction, rules for conduct in society, and practical advice on temperance, reputation, and the benefits of measured study.

Au Lecteur Francoys.

DIXAIN DE SAINTE MARTHE.

POVRQVOY es tu d’aultruy admirateur,

Vilipendant le tien propre langage ?

Est ce (Francoys) que tu n’as instructeur

Qui d’iceluy te remonstre l’vsage ?

Maintenant as en ce grand aduantage,

Si vers ta langue as quelque affection :

Dolet t’y donne vne introduction

Si bonne en tout qu’il n’y a que redire :

Car il t’enseigne (o noble inuention !)

D’escrire bien, bien tourner et bien dire.