Mon mal me suit [22]

Het gene dat ick vlie1 dat moet ick selve draghen/
Ick voere waer ick gae het gheen dat my doet claeghen/
Ick wend’ my hier end’ daer/ ick ben doch even blendt2.
Ick gae/ ick keer/ ick com/ tbeginsel is het endt.
’t Zy dat ick blyde ben/ ’t zy dat ick ben Verbolghen/
Het ghene dat ick vlie/ dat moet ick selve volghen.
Daer ick gae is mijn liefd’ ick moeter doch wel aen/
Ick most my selven eerst/ woud’ ick mijn Vier ontgaen.
Ick voere waer ick gae het gheen dat my doet claeghen/
Ick wend’ my hier end’ daer/ ick ben doch even blendt2.
Ick gae/ ick keer/ ick com/ tbeginsel is het endt.
’t Zy dat ick blyde ben/ ’t zy dat ick ben Verbolghen/
Het ghene dat ick vlie/ dat moet ick selve volghen.
Daer ick gae is mijn liefd’ ick moeter doch wel aen/
Ick most my selven eerst/ woud’ ick mijn Vier ontgaen.

Translations
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De zonde achtervolgt mij. |
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My sins pursue me. |
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Dwaas, ach waar vlucht je heen? Je zonde achtervolgt je, zoals de zware vracht van een ruwe molensteen een trekdier. |
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Fool, ah, where do you flee? Your sins pursue you, as the heavy burden of a rough-hewn millstone pursues a draught animal. |
Literature
Sources and parallels
- Same emblem in 1608 edition: Mon mal me suit [22] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
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- Source for the motto, pictura and entire emblem: Scève, Délie
, embl. 35
- Source for a part of the latin subscriptio: Propertius, Elegiae
, bk/ch/l. I/30/?
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Parallel in the 1616 edition: motto, pictura and subscriptio are the same: Mon mal me suit. [47] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
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Parallel (and probably adaptation) for the pictura and entire emblem: ’Touvvde deuntjen [21] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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Resemblance to: Ille fuga silvas saltusque peragrat [15] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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Use of the same lines of Propertius, in a similar context: Fugiendo, non effugit. [15] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Fugiendo, non effugit. [15] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- ’Touvvde deuntjen [21] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Mon mal me suit [22] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
- Mon mal me suit. [47] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
- Mon mal me suit. [47] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
- Ille fuga silvas saltusque peragrat [15] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
Cupid seated on a horse pulling millstones- taming, domestication of animals; tamed or domesticated animal
[34A11]
- archer's weapons: arrow
[45C15(ARROW)]
- archer's weapons: bow
[45C15(BOW)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman (+ sitting on animal with both legs on one side, riding side-saddle)
[46C131(+82)]
- horse (+ animal(s) pulling, drawing something)
[46C13141(+75247)]
- bit
[46C131612]
- reins
[46C131613]
- blinkers
[46C131616]
- harness
[46C1411]
- treadmill
[47D22]
- parts of machines: mill-stone
[47D7(MILL-STONE)]
- Curtailment (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[51EE12(+4)]
- Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56BB1(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(MON MAL ME SUIT)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]