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In his Les Roses du chappellet envoyees du paradis, pour estre ioinctes a nos Fleurs de lis, marque du bon heur de nostre France, & de celuy des Fideles (1620), the "frere precheur" extols the "immaterial quality" of the lilies and roses, which are not those found in your common garden. sans ancune gloses combien puissent elles estre magistrales ou anciennes" (the word of God . Their muteness is ironic in that it forecloses the most obviously constructive of reflections: "They do not remember that it is they who give him [the tyrant] the strength to take everything from everybody, and to leave nothing that one can say belongs to anyone" ([Ils] ne se conviennent pas que ce sont eus qui lui donnent Ia force pour oster tout a tout, & ne laisser rien qu'on puisse dire estre a personne; 48-50). |
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