Georgette de Montenay/Anna Roemer Visscher, Cent emblemes chrestiens (c. 1615)

Hoewel onweetenheijt niet seer en is te prijsen
Nochtans men die verschoont. maar ijder heeft afgrijsen
Van die (t' sij hun) wel beter weeten, en niet doen.
Verdreijen t' goede, jae de waerheijt: om te voen
Haer giericheijt vervloeckt. wie soude die niet haten!
O doemelycke sondt! O boose Appostaeten!
Ghij die v Godt versaeckt, gheloof en salicheyt,
Besmet de werelt met Pracht en hovaerdicheijt.

Simple ignorance aucuns encor' excusent,
Mais ceste-cy crasse et malitieuse,
Crasse la dy, de ce mot duquel usent
Les anciens, pour la rendre odieuse.
Des apostats est ceste vitieuse
Le vray pourtraict. Car pour remplir leur panse
Reiettans Christ, font sa voix tenebreuse,
Souillans le monde et eux par la bobance.

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COINQVINAT

xxij.
Scire nihil, si turpe nimis: furor impius ergo
Auerso tenebras lumine malle sequi.
Hoc faciunt, Christi reiecta voce, rebelles ,
Vipereus quorum pectora liuor edit.

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Translations

...

It utterly defiles.

If ignorance is all too shameful, it is therefore impious
Folly to prefer to follow dark matters, with averted eye.
This is what the rebellious do by rejecting the word of Christ,
Whose hearts are eaten out by serpentine malice.

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Sources and parallels

Evil side of Self with donkey ears (modified pictura of the 1714 edition shows the Self with a male face) in: De Ziele vindt haer selven [4] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685)) [Compare]
Ignorance as a lascivious woman with donkey ears, described in: Ripa, Iconologia (1593), lemma. 124

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De Ziele vindt haer selven [4] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685))

Georgette de Montenay/Anna Roemer Visscher, Cent emblemes chrestiens (c. 1615)

Coinquinat [22]

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