Envy and its effects (Baudoin, 1638) - Briot

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"De l'Envie, & de ses effets.
DISCOVRS LVIII.
Cette Femme épouventable, ou plutost cette Fureur que vous voyez icy peinte, se nomme l'envie. It has for all hair, ny for all food that Serpens, & makes its ordinary residence in a Cavern, where it is always lying, without that allfois it never rests. The trouble she takes with the good of others makes her so defeated, that to see her straightened skin, her emaciated limbs, and the bones that pierce her skin, one would rather take her for a skeleton than for a living creature. So she doesn't live, since the continuous pains she suffers make her die a thousand times a day. But wouldn't it be unfair to pity her, and shouldn't we rather wish her, if possible, greater evils than her own, if it's true, as we mustn't doubt, that she gives her life to herself, and that her torments are voluntary? ... "

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