He might well take for his crest a pen and panpipes, and the motto "Inde fortuna et libertas" for he passed the latter years of his life in wealth and ease in the palatial country-seat of Sérincourt, over whose door he inscribed the characteristic lines: Le théâtre a payé cet asile champêtre Vous qui passez, merci!

3. Adversa fortuna habet in querelis levamentum; et malorum relatio, &c. 3422.

The poet said: "Audentes fortuna juvat"....