Als d'oude wolf en de wolfinne syn verslaegen
En Rust dees herder niet, maer gaet hun jongen Jaegen:
Om dempen tenemael dat Schadelijck gheslacht,
Daermen doch niet als schae en hinder af verwacht.
Godt seijt alsoo! Ick wil streng en sonder ghenaede,
straffen int vierde Lit de kinders van den quaede
Die mijn Ghebot versmaet en lasterlijck veracht
En niet met waer berouw nae mijn ghenaede tracht.

Ce grand vieil Loup et la Louve nuisante
L'homme ne veut abatre seulement,
Mais aussi veut la race si meschante
Des Louveteaux estaindre entierement.
Dieu dit aussi que rigoureusement
Il punira les enfans et la race
De l'homme qui le sien commandement
A en mespris, & ne cherche sa grace.

98[b] ↓

ETIAM VSQVE AD QVARTAM GENERATIONEM¹

xcviij.
Prostrauisse lupos pastori fuste parentes
Haud satis est, quartā prosequitur sobolem.
Vindictam Deus ostendit, quin vsque nepotes
Pœna manet, proaui quam meruere prius.

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98[b]

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Even unto the fourth generation.

For the herdsman it is not enough to have destroyed the parent
Wolves with his club, he pursues the fourth generation.
God exhibits revenge, yea, the punishment awaits even
The grandsons, that their forebears earned earlier on..

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Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1099

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A shepherd chases the cubs of a couple of wolves, having already killed the parents

'you shall not make for yourself a graven image' ~ separate representation of the second of the ten commandments (+ variant) [11L221(+0)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: wolf (+ young animal) [25F23(WOLF)(+21)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: wolf (+ male animal) [25F23(WOLF)(+22)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: wolf (+ female animal) [25F23(WOLF)(+23)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: wolf (+ head of an animal) [25F23(WOLF)(+33)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: wolf (+ animal killed by man) [25F23(WOLF)(+64)]
trees (+ branch, stick) [25G3(+22)]
low hill country [25H114]
forest, wood [25H15]
head-gear (with NAME) [41D221(HAT)]
weapons for striking a blow: club [45C12(CLUB)]
herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. [47I221]
herd, flock [47I2211]
shepherd's crook [47I2213]
Disobedience, Contumacy, Insubordination; 'Inubidienza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53BB5(+4)]
Extirpation (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58AA11(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(ETIAM USQUE AD QUARTAM GENERATIONEM)]

Etiam usque ad quartam generationem [98]

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