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The women of the Renaissance

Note 158 — Chapter I · THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

George Herbert Ely translation

Bonnet entendoit la magie Aussi bien que l’astrologie: Bonnet le futur prédisoit, Et de tout présages faisoit.... Bonnet sçeut la langue hébraïque Aussi bien que la caldaïque; Mais en latin le bon abbé N’y entendoit ny A ny B. Bonnet avoit mis en usage Un barragouin de langage Entremeslé d’italien, De françois et ... savoysien. Bonnet fut de l’Académie, De ceux qui souflent l’alchumie. —Du Bellay, Epitaphe de l’abbé Bonnet.

[Bonnet knew astrology As well as demonology. Bonnet the future could foretell And cast your horoscope as well. Bonnet knew the Hebrew tongue, And in Chaldee spake and sung, But, good soul, in Latin he Could not say his A B C. Bonnet used with good intention A jargon of his own invention— Words from France he would employ, From Italy and from—Savoy. And in academic state Of alchemy Bonnet would prate.]

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